Modernity ebook

by Peter Wagner

Peter Wagner's developing "world sociology of modernity", outlined in this splendid book, is a major advance in his and our thinking about modernity around the world. The book is also an excellent and very readable summary of the current state of the field.

Peter Wagner's developing "world sociology of modernity", outlined in this splendid book, is a major advance in his and our thinking about modernity around the world. William Outhwaite, Newcastle University.

Peter Wagner's analysis is unfailingly intelligent and judicious, and often brilliant. By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to these questions. This is twenty-first century social and political theory at its very best. William Outhwaite, University of Newcastle. There is a plurality of possible answers, every proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society needs to find its answer on its own.

Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity.

Modernity – Peter Wagner. We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today?

Modernity – Peter Wagner. Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity.

Peter Wagner is a German social and political theorist.

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A sociology of modernity.

A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by the twin notions of liberty and discipline and examined in three major dimensions: the relations between individual liberty and political community, between agency and structure, and between locally situated human lives and widely extended social institutions. A sociology of modernity.

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We are all modern today. This trinity used to be called 'modern society'. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis.

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ meanand how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us tounderstand the world today? These are the questions that PeterWagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book.Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Westernorigins and its claims to open up a new and better era in thehistory of humanity. Modernity's claims and expectations havebecome more prevalent and widely shared, but in the course of theirrealization and diffusion they have also been radicallytransformed. In an acute and engaging analysis, Wagner examines thefollowing key issues among others:- Modernity was based on the hope for freedom and reason, but itcreated the institutions of contemporary capitalism and democracy.How does the freedom of the citizen relate to the freedom of thebuyer and seller today? And what does disaffection with capitalismand democracy entail for the sustainability of modernity?- Rather than a single model of modernity, there is now a pluralityof forms of modern socio-political organisation. What does thisentail for our idea of progress and our hope that the future worldcan be better than the present one?- All nuance and broadening notwithstanding, our concept ofmodernity is in some way inextricably tied to the history of Europeand the West. How can we compare different forms of modernity in a'symmetric', non-biased or non-Eurocentric way? How can we developa world-sociology of modernity?

Morad

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A wise professor once said, "the only books worth reading are the ones you don't understand!" This book is by no means difficult to grasp however. In fact the author plainly structures his presentation of the material in a very logical and linear way and breaks down the chapters into sections based on one aspect of the overall concept. A method that can be easily outlined and broken down into smaller concepts. I'm not going to say that this is not a dense book without a level of assumed prior knowledge in both history and sociology though. While I cannot say that most of this book is novel, due to the fact that over half of it attempts to merely disentangle the meaning of "modernity" but the last few chapters come together nicely to form his analysis of what "modernity" means.

I can't really recommend this book outside of an academic setting, but this book will be helpful for anyone wanting to learn a basic understanding of the term, "modernity".

Madis

This book is for the modernity expert. People new to the subject will not have an easy time with this book! The sentences are very long and oddly structured. Beware it is really very dense and difficult, written for a specific niche audience.