1st Edition
The Badlands of Modernity Heterotopia and Social Ordering
By Kevin Hetherington
Copyright 1997
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that modernity originates through an interplay between ideas of utopia and heterotopia and heterotopic... Read more
Preface, 1 The Palais Royal as modernity, 2 Margins, orderings and the laboratories of society, 3 Two castles, 4 The utopics of modernity, 5 Secret virtues, Euclidean spaces, 6 The factory for itself, 7 The space of the horizon, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Kevin Hetherington is Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University
'Hetherington simply manages to pack a great deal of interesting theoretical and empirical analysis into a slim volume.' - Environment and Planning Review
