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Reflexive Modernization - Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (Paperback, and and and ed.)
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Reflexive Modernization - Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (Paperback, and and and ed.)
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The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis.
In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the
implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural
theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has
already become extraordinarily influential. Beck offers a new
elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting reflexive modernization
with new issues to do with the state and political organization.
Giddens offers an in-depth examination of the connections between
"institutional reflexivity" and the de-traditionalizing of the
modern world. We are entering, he argues, a phase of the
development of a global society. A "global society" is not a world
society, but one with universalizing tendencies. Lash develops the
theme of reflexive modernization in relation the aesthetics and the
interpretation of culture. In this domain, he suggests, we need to
look again at the conventional theories of postmodernism;
"aesthetic modernization" has distinctive qualities that need to be
uncovered and analyzed. In the concluding sections of the book, the
three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints,
providing a synthetic conclusion to the work as a whole.
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