{"product_id":"modernity-understanding-the-present-9780745652900","title":"Modernity  Understanding the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This is a brief, authoritative and accessible introduction to the idea of modernity, written by a leading social theorist.    * Wagner shows that modernity was based on ideas of freedom, reason and progress, but he examines the extent to which these ideas have been, and can be, realized in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Modernity as an organizing theoretical-interpretative device has had an untidy and unruly history. No one recognizes this better than Peter Wagner, and no one has done more to unpack, analyse, tame, and repack its meanings and its claims. \u003ci\u003eModernity\u003c\/i\u003e extends his previous work significantly, and consolidates his position as simultaneously the most creative and the most sensible of writers of our time on the topic. He is especially to be congratulated for referring to historical and comparative actualities.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNeil Smelser, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Peter Wagner's work is simply indispensable to those who wish to conceptualize modernity in a truly global way that challenges the Eurocentrism built into all classical writings on the subject. Wagner is a high theorist but his openness to questions of historical diversity remains exemplary.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam Outhwaite, Newcastle University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003eRe-theorizing modernity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1\u003cbr\u003eRetrieving modernity's past, understanding modernity's present\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003eChanging views of modernity:\u003cbr\u003efrom convergence and stability to plurality and transformations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003eSuccessive modernities:\u003cbr\u003ecrisis, criticism and the idea of progress\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003eDisentangling the concept of modernity:\u003cbr\u003etime, action and problems to be solved\u003cbr\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzing contemporary modernity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5\u003cbr\u003eThe link between capitalism and democracy reconsidered\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6\u003cbr\u003eEuropean and non-European trajectories of modernity compared\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7\u003cbr\u003eViolence and justice in global modernity:\u003cbr\u003ereflections on South Africa with world-sociological intent\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8\u003cbr\u003eTowards a world-sociology of modernity\u003cbr\u003eReferences","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404401549655,"sku":"9780745652900","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernity-understanding-the-present-9780745652900","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}