Lonelinesses of modernity: A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation

ISBN-13: 9783658401436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025

Denis Newiak

Opis

Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.

Spis treści

1. On the concept of modernity.- 2. Communities of the pre-modern era.- 3. The onset of modernization.- 4. Disorientation and abandonment: the lonelinesses of the early modern era.- 5. Lonely time diagnoses of the industrial high modern era.- 6. The lonelinesses of the late modern era.- 7. Life in the network society and the escalation of late modern lonelinesses.- 8. Has the post-modern era already begun?

O autorze

Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies.

Blurb

Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.

The author

Denis Newiak  is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.