Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order - Rilegato

Beck, Ulrich; Giddens, Anthony; Lash, Scott

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0745612776 ISBN 13: 9780745612775

Casa editrice: Polity Press, 1994

Riassunto

In this book, three social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has already become influential. Beck offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting reflexive modernization with new issues to do with the state and political organization. Giddens offers an in-depth examination of the connections between "institutional reflexivity" and the de-traditionalizing of the modern world. We are entering, he argues, a phase of the development of a global society. A "global society" is not a world society, but one with universalizing tendencies. Lash develops the theme of reflexive modernization in relation to aesthetics and the interpretation of culture. In this domain, he suggests, we need to look again at the conventional theories of postmodernism; "aesthetic modernization" has distinctive qualities that need to be uncovered and analyzed. In the concluding sections of the book, the three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints, providing a synthetic conclusion to the work as a whole.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Polity Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0745612776
• ISBN 13: 9780745612775
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile