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The society of singularities / Andreas Reckwitz ; translated by Valentine A. Pakis.
Van Pelt Library HM831 .R42513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reckwitz, Andreas, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- Individualism.
- Culture.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the original German.
- Summary:
- "In this major new book, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The proliferation of the particular
- The social logic of the general
- The social logic of the particular
- Culture and culturalization
- The transformation of the cultural sphere
- Unique goods in cultural capitalism
- Cultural singularity markets
- Practices of labor and organization in the creative economy
- The singularization and self-singularization of working subjects
- The technology of culturalization
- Cultural and automated processes of singularization
- The lifestyle of the new middle class: successful self-actualization
- Elements of the singular lifestyle
- The culturalization of inequality
- Apertistic-differential liberalism and the politics of the local
- The rise of cultural essentialism
- Conclusion: the crisis of the general?.
- Modernity between the social logic of the general and the social logic of the particular
- The post-industrial economy of singularities
- The singularization of the working world
- Digitalization as singularization : the rise of the culture machine
- The singularistic life : lifestyles, classes, subject forms
- Differential liberalism and cultural essentialism : the transformation of the political
- Conclusion: The crisis of the general?
- Notes:
- "First published in German as Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2017"-- Title verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reckwitz, Andreas. Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. English. Society of singularities.
- ISBN:
- 9781509534227
- 1509534229
- OCLC:
- 1114280552
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