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Modernity Reimagined: An Analytic Guide (Paperback)
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Modernity Reimagined: An Analytic Guide (Paperback)
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Winner of the American Sociological Association's Distinguished
Book Award in 2012, Chandra Mukerji offers with this remarkable new
book an explanation of the birth and subsequent proliferation of
the many strands in the braid of modernity. The journey she takes
us on is dedicated to teasing those strands apart, using forms of
cultural analysis from the social sciences to approach history with
fresh eyes. Faced with the problem of trying to understand what is
hardest to see: the familiar, she gains analytic distance and
clarity by juxtaposing cultural analysis with history, asking how
modernity began and how people conjured into existence the world we
now recognize as modern. Part I describes the genesis of key modern
social forms: the modern self, communities of strangers, the modern
state, and the industrial world economy. Part II focuses on modern
social types: races, genders, and childhood. Part III focuses on
some of the cultural artifacts and activities of the contemporary
world that people have invented and used to cope with the burdens
of self-making and to react against the broken promises of modern
discourse and the silent injuries of material modernism.
Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color photographs in its 10
chapters, MODERNITY REIMAGINED is not just an explanation, an
analysis of how modern life came to be, it is also a model for how
to do cultural thinking about today's world.
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