Modernity as Experience and InterpretationISBN: 978-0-7456-4218-5
Hardcover
296 pages
June 2008, Polity
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- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Ways of understanding modernity
- Part I
- Interpretations of political modernity: liberty and its discontents
- Overture
- Multiple interpretations of political modernity
- Chapter 2
- Modernity and the question of freedom
- Chapter 3
- The political forms of modernity
- Chapter 4
- Modernity as a project of emancipation and the possibility of politics
- Part II
- Interpretations of economic modernity: the endgame and after
- Overture
- Capitalism and modernity as social formations and as imaginary significations
- Chapter 5
- The critique of capitalism and its impasse
- Chapter 6
- Towards a comparative-historical sociology of capitalism
- Chapter 7
- The exit from organized economic modernity
- Part III
- Interpretations of epistemic modernity: distance and involvement
- Overture
- The quest for knowledge beyond experience and interpretation
- Chapter 8
- The critique of science and its prospects
- Chapter 9
- Varieties of socio-political interpretations of modernity
- Part IV
- The European experience and interpretation of modernity
- Overture
- European integration as an interpretation of modernity
- Chapter 10
- Logics of European history
- Chapter 11
- Regionalizing European modernity
- Part V
- The analysis of modernity and the need for a new sociology
- Overture
- When the light of the cultural problems has moved on
- Chapter 12
- The social theory and political philosophy of modernity
- Chapter 13
- The conceptual history and historical sociology of modernity
- References
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