The transformation of modernity : aspects of the past, present and future of an era / edited by Mikael Carleheden, Michael Hviid Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carleheden, Mikael.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

1. Time-Consciousness and Transformation: On Modernity's Relation to the Future / Nikolas Kompridis 3

2. From Industrial Modernity to Risk Modernity? A Critical Discussion of the Theory of the 'Risk Society' / Klaus Rasborg 19

3. Early Reflexive Modernity: The Differentiation of Political Reflexivity / Gorm Harste 41

4. Modernity and Its Archive: The Principle of Insufficient Reason / Bo Isenberg 71

5. Rethinking the Epochs of Western Modernity / Mikael Carleheden 83

Part II Identity, Sexuality and the Intimate Sphere

6. Modern and Postmodern Themes in American Sexual Politics / Steven Seidman 119

7. Private Sexuality, Public Morality and Modern Sexology: What Prospects of Sexuality in Times of Uncertainty? / Michael Hviid Jacobsen 131

8. 'If People Believe Ideas are Real...': Women's Self Perception as Active Individuals in Late Modernity / Catharina Juul Kristensen 165

9. Transformations of Identities in Rapidly Changing Societies / Lars Dencik 183

Part III Globalisation, Knowledge and Democracy

10. Global Society as the Crisis of Democracy / Hauke Brunkhorst 225

11. Professions on the Road to Global Power: The Case of the Legal Profession / Margareta Bertilsson 241

12. Modern Reflexive Leadership / Ojvind Larsen 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754617637

OCLC:

47271068