{"product_id":"acquiring-modernity-an-investigation-into-the-rise-structure-and-future-of-the-modern-world-9789004393943","title":"Acquiring Modernity: An Investigation into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspective but written in accessible everyday language, this book provides a multifaceted account of what makes modern society what it is, from its historical roots to its current conditions.     Neither traditional classroom text nor a work of detailed erudition for the specialist few, Acquiring Modernity draws on material from known historical events, scholarly research, and recent global developments to tell modernity’s story through topics such as the modern classes, religious practice, relations of gender and race, politics, environmental issues, and economic crises. Valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary life and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Acknowledgements List of Illustrations   1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired   2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins   3 Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word   4 The Concept of Society   5 History and Human Development   6 A History of Struggles   7 Mystical Consciousness   8 Illusions to this Day   9 An Inverted World   10 Educating the Educator   11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth   12 Middle Class Snobbism   13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment   14 Social Scum   15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium   16 The Cult of Nature   17 World Literature   18 Modern Society’s All-dominating Power   19 An Impulse Never Before Known   20 Head of the Movement   21 Absurd Epidemics   22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies   23 Machines   24 Rule of the Towns   25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment   26 Solids Melting into Air   27 Civilization and Barbarism   28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire   29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats   30 The Economic Existence of the State   31 Democracy for their Truth   32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost   33 The Executive Committee   34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses   35 Rolling Back the Wheel   36 The Goal of Popular Desire   37 National Egoism   38 Every Sect is Religious   39 Disgusting Despotism   40 The Sycophantic Babblers   41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture   42 The Measure of Social Progress   43 Defiling Republics   44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious   45 The World Market   46 The Political Chessboard   47 Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes   48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs   49 The Sorcerer   50 Prevailing Tendencies   51 Common Ruin   52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds   53 Socialist Sentimentalizing   54 Whether We Want it or Not   55 Afterword   56 Postmodernism?    References    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210770702679,"sku":"9789004393943","price":205.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/acquiring-modernity-an-investigation-into-the-rise-structure-and-future-of-the-modern-world-9789004393943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}