Today, as the world is threatened by anti-democratic movements, this editionadds a new early section on the origins of democratic values in 1700sâ and a new concluding section that focuses on how, in the 2020s, social theorists are rethinking the world to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democracy movements.
Today, as the world is threatened by anti-democratic movements, this editionadds a new early section on the origins of democratic values in 1700sâ and a new concluding section that focuses on how, in the 2020s, social theorists are rethinking the world to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democracy movements.
Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University. Among his books are The Structural Lie: Small Clues to Global Things (2011), Why Niebuhr Matters (2011), Uncertain Worlds: World-Systems Analysis in Changing Times (2013, with Immanuel Wallerstein and Carlos Aguirre Rojas), and Globalization: Introduction to the End of the Known World (2015). He is at work on The Uncertain Future of Capitalism (2021, with Kristin Plys) and, among other books, Uncertainties of Time: The Past and Future TimeSpace (with Immanuel Wallerstein, posthumously).
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1. 1690-1919, Modernity's Classical Age Social Foundations of Modern Democracy The Unthinkable Two Sides of Society Split Lives in the Modern World Part 2. 1919-1945, Social Theories and World Conflict Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World Unavoidable Dilemmas Part 3. 1945-1964, The Golden Moment The Golden Age Doubts and Reservations Others Object Part 4. 1963-1979, Will the Center Hold? Experiments in Renewal and Reconstruction Part 5. 1969-2001, After Modernity The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics Reactions and Alternatives New Cultural Theories After Modernity Part 6. After 2001, Global Realities in an Uncertain Future Global Uncertainties Rethinking the Past That Haunts the Future Is the Modern Order Broken?
Part 1. 1690-1919, Modernity's Classical Age Social Foundations of Modern Democracy The Unthinkable Two Sides of Society Split Lives in the Modern World Part 2. 1919-1945, Social Theories and World Conflict Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World Unavoidable Dilemmas Part 3. 1945-1964, The Golden Moment The Golden Age Doubts and Reservations Others Object Part 4. 1963-1979, Will the Center Hold? Experiments in Renewal and Reconstruction Part 5. 1969-2001, After Modernity The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics Reactions and Alternatives New Cultural Theories After Modernity Part 6. After 2001, Global Realities in an Uncertain Future Global Uncertainties Rethinking the Past That Haunts the Future Is the Modern Order Broken?
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