Detraditionalization
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 1995
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-1-55786-554-0 (ISBN)
Description
The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the world. This volume reverses the emphasis, to focus on modes of authority and identity, and to examine the roles which existing and new traditions may play in our epoch. It announces a new agenda for contemporary social theory, moving beyond current debates over (post)modernity.
The contributors include Mark Poster, Richard Sennett, Ulrich Beck, Margaret Archer, Mary Douglas and Thomas Luckmann.
The contributors include Mark Poster, Richard Sennett, Ulrich Beck, Margaret Archer, Mary Douglas and Thomas Luckmann.
Reviews / Votes
"Essential reading for any scholar interested in what it means to be modern today." David Ingram, Loyola University of ChicagoMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-554-0 (9781557865540)
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Persons
Paul Heelas, Scott Lash and Paul Morris are the authors and editors of many books and have also worked within the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at the University of Lancaster. This book is a sequel to Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman's influential reader, Modernity and Identity, published by Blackwell in 1992.
Content
Preface. 1. Introduction: Detraditionalization and its Rivals: Paul Heelas.
Part I: Losing the Traditional:.
2. Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms': Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Oriented Sociology: Ulrick Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
3. Morality in the Age of Contingency: Zygmunt Bauman.
4. Complexity, Structural Contingencies and Value Conflicts: Niklas Luhmann.
5. The Privatization of Religion and Morality: Thomas Luckmann.
Part II: Detraditionalization and Traditions Today:.
6. Tradition and Self in a Mediated World: John B. Thompson.
7. Identity, Meaning and Globalization: Detraditionalization in Postmodern Space-Time Compression: Thomas W. Luke.
8. Detraditionalization and the Certainty of Uncertain Futures: Barbara Adam.
9. Detraditionalization, Character and the Limits to Agency: Colin Campbell.
Part III: Detraditionalization, Human Values and Solidarity: .
10. The Foreigner: Richard Sennett.
11. On Things not Being Worse and the Ethic of Humanity: Paul Heelas.
12. Community Beyond Tradition: Paul Morris.
13. Tradition and the Limits of Difference: Scott Lash.
Part IV: Dissolving Detraditionalization: .
14. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpretations: Mark Poster.
15. Authority and Genealogy of Subjectivity: Nikolas Rose.
Index.
Part I: Losing the Traditional:.
2. Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms': Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Oriented Sociology: Ulrick Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
3. Morality in the Age of Contingency: Zygmunt Bauman.
4. Complexity, Structural Contingencies and Value Conflicts: Niklas Luhmann.
5. The Privatization of Religion and Morality: Thomas Luckmann.
Part II: Detraditionalization and Traditions Today:.
6. Tradition and Self in a Mediated World: John B. Thompson.
7. Identity, Meaning and Globalization: Detraditionalization in Postmodern Space-Time Compression: Thomas W. Luke.
8. Detraditionalization and the Certainty of Uncertain Futures: Barbara Adam.
9. Detraditionalization, Character and the Limits to Agency: Colin Campbell.
Part III: Detraditionalization, Human Values and Solidarity: .
10. The Foreigner: Richard Sennett.
11. On Things not Being Worse and the Ethic of Humanity: Paul Heelas.
12. Community Beyond Tradition: Paul Morris.
13. Tradition and the Limits of Difference: Scott Lash.
Part IV: Dissolving Detraditionalization: .
14. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpretations: Mark Poster.
15. Authority and Genealogy of Subjectivity: Nikolas Rose.
Index.