Modernity as experience and interpretation : a new sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner.
Modernity as experience and interpretation : a new sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner.
Modernity as experience and interpretation : a new sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner.
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N303.4/ 84
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English
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x, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Ways of Understanding Modernity -- Pt. I. Interpretations of Political Modernity: Liberty and its Discontents -- Overture. Multiple Interpretations of Political Modernity -- 2. Modernity and the Question of Freedom -- 3. The Political Forms of Modernity -- 4. Modernity as a Project of Emancipatio...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008.
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England
Date Published
2008.
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"We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis." "Every society seeks answers to certain b...
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Modernity as experience and interpretation : a new sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-296) and index.
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N303.4/ 84
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9780745642192 (pbk.)
0745642187 (hbk.)
9780745642185 (hbk.)
0745642195 (pbk.)
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303.4
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991000588999702626
