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Thinking Differently (Hardcover)
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Thinking Differently (Hardcover)
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In his previous books Alain Touraine analysed the great changes
that have transformed our personal and collective lives; in this
new book he shows that we need to transform our ways of thinking
about these changes. The very idea of society is in crisis:
globalization and the liberation of desires from taboos have led to
the collapse of the old social order. In our societies today, good
and evil can no longer be defined by institutions; self-awareness
is more important than the awareness of rules and subjects have
become their own creators. Taking as his starting point a critique
of what he calls the Dominant Interpretive Discourse, which tried
throughout the twentieth century to impose the idea of a society
without actors that was subject to various kinds of determinism
(especially economic determinism), Touraine argues that the only
principle that allows us to evaluate individual behaviour and
social situations is the recognition of the political, social and
cultural rights of all human beings, who are viewed as free and
equal. The individual must be seen as a subject and treated as the
cornerstone of a reconstructed sociology. Whereas some denounce
individualism, the author celebrates a subjectivation that involves
the defence of the rights of all against all modes of social
integration. This general line of argument is made concrete through
an analysis of the subordination of women, the exclusion of
minorities and the difficulties young people face at school and at
work. This major new book represents in many ways the culmination
of twenty years of theoretical reflection which began with Critique
of Modernity and which have established Touraine as one of the
leading figures of contemporary social thought.
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