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Scott Lash - Another Modernity: A Different Rationality - 9780631164999 - V9780631164999
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Another Modernity: A Different Rationality

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Description for Another Modernity: A Different Rationality Paperback. aeo An original contribution to debates now at the core of social and cultural theory. aeo Brings together the themes that Scott Lash first broached a decade ago, this is the authors definitive statement in social and cultural theory. aeo An original contribution to debates now at the core of social and cultural theory. Num Pages: 408 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 578.
This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts.

Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to ... Read more

The first and second modernities co-existed in a state of irresolvable tension along the history of western industrial capitalism. This is thrown into crisis, Lash argues, with the turn of the twenty-first century emergence of the global information culture. What are the implications of this explosion of first and second modernities into today's technological culture? When the previously existing third space of difference is exploded into the general indifference of information and communication flows? How might we lead our lives in an age in which difference - and indeed the ground itself - become primarily a matter for memory, for mourning?

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631164999
SKU
V9780631164999
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Ref
99-50

About Scott Lash
Scott Lash is Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He previously taught at Lancaster University for many years. He was a Humboldt Fellow in Berlin between 1988 and 1990. His previous books include The End of Organized Capitalism (co-author, 1987), Sociology of Postmodernism (1990), Modernity and Identity (co-editor, 1992), ... Read more

Reviews for Another Modernity: A Different Rationality
"Serious, intelligent and innovative, this book compels us to rethink our modern/ postmodern certainties." Mark Poster, Laguna Beach, California

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