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After the Crisis (Hardcover)
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After the Crisis (Hardcover)
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What effects will the current economic crisis have on the long-term
development of our societies? What does the future hold in store
when we emerge from the crisis? These two questions lie at the
heart of this important new book by the leading French sociologist
Alain Touraine. In an era dominated by the global economy and the
triumph of individualism, our society has broken away from the old
model of integration in place since the industrial revolution. We
no longer see ourselves as players in an economic system around
which every aspect of society is ordered but rather as individuals
with our own rights, capable of creating our own lives in a world
in which cultural values prevail. The financial crisis and the
growing autonomy of speculative and financial imperatives have
exacerbated the rift between the economy and society and could push
this long-term tendency in either of two directions. On the one
hand, individuals who find themselves unemployed, impoverished and
stripped of their savings may feel increasingly excluded and
incapable of reacting politically, which would explain the silence
of many victims of the crisis. On the other hand, individuals could
also find themselves transformed into social actors who are defined
increasingly in moral and universal terms, in which case the crisis
could help to precipitate a long-term cultural evolution. We are
facing a future as yet undecided, a future hovering between
catastrophe and radical reform. This book explores the factors that
could tip the balance.
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