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The dark side of modernity / Jeffrey C. Alexander.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge: Polity Press, c2013.Description: viii, 187 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780745648217 (hbk.)
  • 0745648215 (hbk.)
  • 9780745648224 (pbk.)
  • 0745648223 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 2
LOC classification:
  • HM5821.A83 D88 2013
Contents:
Social theory between progress and apocalypse -- Autonomy and domination: Weber's cage -- Barbarism and modernity: Eisenstadt's regret -- Integration and justice: Parsons' utopia -- Despising others: Simmel's stranger -- Meaning evil -- De-civilizing the civil sphere -- Psychotherapy as central institution -- The frictions of modernity and their possible repair.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-181) and index.

Social theory between progress and apocalypse -- Autonomy and domination: Weber's cage -- Barbarism and modernity: Eisenstadt's regret -- Integration and justice: Parsons' utopia -- Despising others: Simmel's stranger -- Meaning evil -- De-civilizing the civil sphere -- Psychotherapy as central institution -- The frictions of modernity and their possible repair.

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