1st Edition

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

332 Pages

by Routledge

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This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from Hobbes to Parsons is no longer understood as a description of the final and highest stage in the social evolution of mankind. Modern society is not the... Read more

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.