The Transformation of Modernity: Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era

ISBN-13: 9781138631069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 332 str.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Mikael Carleheden

Opis

This title was first published in 2001: This multidisciplinary volume addresses perspectives on modernity which identifies modern society as a contingent social and cultural formation rather than as the final stage in mankind's social evolution. It explores this concept both theoretically and empirically, in general and historical terms and through specific social, political and philosophical issues, and represents a unique effort to come to grips with our obscure and elusive social position at the start of the 21st century.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, Mikael Carleheden and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. General Aspects: Time-consciousness and transformation: on modernity’s relation to the future, Nikolas Kompridis; From industrial modernity to risk modernity? a critical discussion of the theory of risk society, Klaus Rasborg; Early reflective modernity: the differentiation of political reflexivity, Gorm Harste; Modernity and its archive: the principle of insufficient reason, Bo Isenberg; Rethinking the Epochs of Western modernity, Mikael Carleheden. Identity, Sexuality and the Intimate Sphere: Modern and postmodern themes in American sexual politics, Steven Seidman; Private sexuality, public morality and modern sexology: what prospects of sexuality in times of uncertainty?, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; If people believe ideas are real...: women’s self-perception as active individuals in late modernity, Catharina Juul Kristensen; Transformations of identities in rapidly changing societies, Lars Dencik. Globalization, Knowledge and Democracy: Global society as the crisis of democracy, Hauke Brunkhorst; Professions on the road to global power: the case of the legal profession, Margareta Bertilsson; Modern reflexive leadership, Ojvind Larsen; Contributors; Index.

O autorze

Mikael Carleheden, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University, Denmark