Quatrième de couverture
Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective workwhich announces a radical new departure within contemporary debateson modernism and postmodernism.
While dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernismare centered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of theotherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a matterof movement, of flux, of change and of unpredictability.
Modernity and postmodernity are shown to mean, not the ′end ofthe subject′ but the transformation and creation of new forms ofsubjectivity. Anthropological concepts are brought squarely intothe heart of the modernity controversies, which are then recast inthe context of tradition, globalization and of the crisis ofidentity in a newly de–centred world system.
The possibility of a third way is opened up, rejecting theopposition between the impersonal rationality of high modernism andthe rationalist anti–ethics of postmodernism. The vision in thisbook is that of another modernity, which counter–poses Baudelaireto Rousseau, and loyalist ethics to abstract blueprints for socialand political reorganization.
This book will be essential reading for students of sociology,cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology, urban studies andphilosophy.
Biographie de l'auteur
Scott Lash lectures in sociology at Lancaster University.His books include The End of Organized Capitalism (1987)with John Urry; Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity (1987)with Sam Whimster and Sociology of Postmodernism (1990).
Jonathan Friedman teaches anthropology at theuniversities of Lund and Copenhagen. He has written widely onculture and globalization in Review and Theory, Culture andSociety. He has written System, Structure and Contradictionin the Evolution of "Asiatic" Social Formations (1979).
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