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Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives

Author : Sandro Segre
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 178527306X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives written by Sandro Segre and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ provides a comparison between the conceptions of modernity and its alternatives in the works of Bauman, Elias and Latour. Their work and research are linked to their distinct views on modernity and its alternatives. For Bauman, the rationality, effectiveness and impersonality that characterize present-day bureaucratic apparatuses are the distinguishing features of modernity. Its post-modern or ‘liquid’ alternative has none of these traits. For Elias, modernity has two different and contrasting faces, that of civilization and barbarity. Elias conceives of civilization as a process connoted by self-control and pacification, which prevail as a consequence of the restraint which honor and morality exert on individuals. By contrast, the breakdown of civilization involves barbarity. For Latour, modernity if defined by a separation between society and nature, or humans and non-humans, has never existed. By virtue of their intimate association, humans and non-humans have formed hybrids, whose proliferation is the hallmark of our age. Modernity, therefore, has never prevailed. Alternatives to hybrids are, in the current age, failed hybrids. The set of alternatives is then as follows: modernity vs. post-modernity (Bauman); civilization vs. barbarity (Elias); and successful vs. unsuccessful hybrids (Latour).

Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives

Author : Sandro Segre
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785273051
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives written by Sandro Segre and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ provides a comparison between the conceptions of modernity and its alternatives in the works of Bauman, Elias and Latour. Their work and research are linked to their distinct views on modernity and its alternatives. For Bauman, the rationality, effectiveness and impersonality that characterize present-day bureaucratic apparatuses are the distinguishing features of modernity. Its post-modern or ‘liquid’ alternative has none of these traits. For Elias, modernity has two different and contrasting faces, that of civilization and barbarity. Elias conceives of civilization as a process connoted by self-control and pacification, which prevail as a consequence of the restraint which honor and morality exert on individuals. By contrast, the breakdown of civilization involves barbarity. For Latour, modernity if defined by a separation between society and nature, or humans and non-humans, has never existed. By virtue of their intimate association, humans and non-humans have formed hybrids, whose proliferation is the hallmark of our age. Modernity, therefore, has never prevailed. Alternatives to hybrids are, in the current age, failed hybrids. The set of alternatives is then as follows: modernity vs. post-modernity (Bauman); civilization vs. barbarity (Elias); and successful vs. unsuccessful hybrids (Latour).

Origins of the Kurdish Genocide

Author : Ibrahim Sadiq
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793636834
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Kurdish Genocide written by Ibrahim Sadiq and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that a part of the history of nation building in Iraq through addressing its political characters, different communities, agreements and pan Arab ideology, including the Baath ideology and its attempts to seize power through nondemocratic methods. It is an attempt to approach the essence of the exclusion mentality of the ruling elite in order to understand the process of genocide against the Kurdish people, including all existing religious minorities. This essence of the process has been approached in the framework of the civilizing and de-civilizing process as a main theory of the German sociologist, Norbert Elias. Thus, this book may be considered as one of the comprehensive books to present a study of state-building in Iraq, along with identifying some of the political figures that had an essential impact on the construction. On the other hand, it is a comprehensive study of the genocide, in the sense of searching for the causes and roots of the genocide. The Anfal campaigns took place in 1988, but the process started as far back as the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies of the last century.

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory: Volume 1, A Contested Canon

Author : Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108916376
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory: Volume 1, A Contested Canon written by Peter Kivisto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social theory and its relationship to the canon, exploring such topics as the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory; the significance of the classics; the impact of specific individual and theory schools; and more. Both volumes reflect a mixture of what intellectual historian Morton White distinguished as the 'annalist of ideas' and the 'analyst of ideas,' locating theoretical thought within the larger socio-historical context that shaped it - within the terrain of the sociology of knowledge. Exploring the contemporary relevance of theories in a manner that is historically situated and sensitive, this impressive and comprehensive set will likely stand the test of time.

Society in Flux

Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802622438
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Society in Flux written by Harry F. Dahms and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how modern tensions and modes of analyzing them have changed over the course of the last 200 years or so, through three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory.

The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber

Author : Alan Sica
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000642216
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber written by Alan Sica and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it illuminates Weber’s thought in a number of key areas, including the methodology and philosophy of social science, comparative religion, the rationalization process, political sociology, the sociology of law, and the Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism. An international collection that demonstrates the enduring importance of Weber’s thought to contemporary sociology and the discipline’s major concerns, The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber will appeal to scholars in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social theory, politics, philosophy, law, and international relations.

Culture, Modernity and Revolution

Author : Richard Kilminster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134890435
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Modernity and Revolution written by Richard Kilminster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems facing East-Central Europe and an exposition of some of the key, hitherto neglected, features of the modern cultural universe.

We Have Never Been Modern

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674948396
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book We Have Never Been Modern written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour’s analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present. Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, We Have Never Been Modern blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.

Zygmunt Bauman

Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 085702650X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Zygmunt Bauman written by Peter Beilharz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman′s social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman′s later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman′s work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker.

Modernity and Ambivalence

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745638112
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Ambivalence written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.

We Have Never Been Modern

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613919050
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book We Have Never Been Modern written by Bruno Latour and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith.

Legislators and Interpreters

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislators and Interpreters written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of intellectuals in the modern world? How does intellectual work connect to modern cultural development as a whole? Bauman answers these questions through a discussion of the nature of modernism and post-modernism in the analysis of culture.

Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

Author : Hatem Akil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463727457
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic written by Hatem Akil and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, etc., including a contribution by Alain Touraine. From coloniality to pandemic, modernity can now represent a global necessity in which awareness of human and environmental crises, injustices, and inequality would create the possibility of a modernity-to-come.

Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509539263
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? written by Graham Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes strengthening independent offices whose overarching goals do not change at every election. More radically, Smith argues that forms of participatory and deliberative politics offer the most effective democratic response to the current political myopia, as well as a powerful means of protecting the interests of generations to come.

European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World

Author : Karen E. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745658172
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World written by Karen E. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of contemporary European foreign policy and offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on the nature of the EU’s international identity. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book explores how and why the EU tries to achieve five core foreign policy objectives: the encouragement of regional cooperation; the advancement of human rights; the promotion of democracy and good governance; the prevention of violent conflicts; and the fight against international crime, including terrorism. In pursuing these goals, the book illustrates how the EU is faced with acute policy dilemmas because the five objectives not only clash with each other, but also with additional policy priorities – such as securing energy supplies or establishing strategic partnerships with key powers. The uniqueness of the EU as a global actor is carefully assessed, and its key policies and the related dilemmas it faces compared with those of other international actors. This well-written and thoroughly researched book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, foreign policy analysis, international relations and related disciplines.

Consuming Life

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745655823
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Life written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term the market. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers. It is the hidden truth, the deepest and most closely guarded secret, of the consumer society in which we now live. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences. The invasion and colonization of the web of human relations by the worldviews and behavioural patterns inspired and shaped by commodity markets, and the sources of resentment, dissent and occasional resistance to the occupying forces, are the central themes of this brilliant new book by one of the worlds most original and insightful social thinkers.

Freedom

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816617579
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bauman (sociology, U. of Leeds) analyzes freedom as a social relation rather than as an idea or postulate. Throughout history, he shows, freedom was a privilege enjoyed in relation to either superior or weaker power. Today, "seduction" tends to replace repression as a means of social control, and individual freedom is, above all, freedom of the consumer. A paper edition is available ($10.95; 1757-0). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR