Imaginaries of Modernity: Politics, Cultures, Tensions

ISBN-13: 9780367595623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

John Rundell

Opis

With a focus on five broad themes - the problem of understanding of modernity after the decline of grand narratives; the complexity of the modern condition; politics, especially with reference to freedom and totalitarian regimes; the variety and density of modern life; and the centrality of a concept of culture to social and critical theory - the a

Spis treści

Introduction: Modernity is Out of Joint Page

Part 1: Tensions of Modernity

1. From Communicative Modernity to Tensions of Modernity Page

2. Modernity, Contingency, Dissonance Page

3. The City and Fear: Citizens, Strangers, Outsiders Page

Part 2: Political modernities

4. Durkheim and the Reflexive Condition of Modernity Page

5. Democratic Revolutions, Power and The City Page

6. Autonomy, Oligarchy, Statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the Fragility of Politics Page

7. Power, Politics and its Closure – On the Work of Claude Lefort Page

8. Tensions of Citizenship in the Age of Diversity Page

9. From Indigenous Civilisation to Indigenous Modernities Page

10. Intersections and Tensions Between Civilisations and Modernities:

The Case of Oman Page

11. Cosmopolitanism as an Open Universal Page

Part 3: In Search of Transcendence

12. Multiple Modernities, Sacredness and the Democratic Imaginary:

Religion as a Stand-in Category Page

13. In search of transcendence: Charles Taylor’s Critique of Secularisation Page

14. Modernity, Love and Imagination Page

15. Musicality and modernity: Music as a Space of Possibilities Page

O autorze

John Rundell is Principal Honorary and Associate Professor and Reader in Social Theory at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Origins of Modern Social Theory from Kant to Hegel to Marx, the editor of Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller, and the co-editor of Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity; Rethinking Imagination: Culture and Creativity; Culture and Civilization: Classical and Critical Readings; Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship; Critical Theory After Habermas: Encounters and Departures; Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy; and Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory.