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Author:   John Rundell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
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9781472482174

ISBN 10:   1472482174
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   07 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Modernity is Out of Joint Page Part 1: Tensions of Modernity 1. From Communicative Modernity to Tensions of Modernity Page 2. Modernity, Contingency, Dissonance Page 3. The City and Fear: Citizens, Strangers, Outsiders Page Part 2: Political modernities 4. Durkheim and the Reflexive Condition of Modernity Page 5. Democratic Revolutions, Power and The City Page 6. Autonomy, Oligarchy, Statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the Fragility of Politics Page 7. Power, Politics and its Closure – On the Work of Claude Lefort Page 8. Tensions of Citizenship in the Age of Diversity Page 9. From Indigenous Civilisation to Indigenous Modernities Page 10. Intersections and Tensions Between Civilisations and Modernities: The Case of Oman Page 11. Cosmopolitanism as an Open Universal Page Part 3: In Search of Transcendence 12. Multiple Modernities, Sacredness and the Democratic Imaginary: Religion as a Stand-in Category Page 13. In search of transcendence: Charles Taylor’s Critique of Secularisation Page 14. Modernity, Love and Imagination Page 15. Musicality and modernity: Music as a Space of Possibilities Page

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John Rundell is Principal Honorary and Associate Professor and Reader in Social Theory at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Origins of Modern Social Theory from Kant to Hegel to Marx, the editor of Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller, and the co-editor of Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity; Rethinking Imagination: Culture and Creativity; Culture and Civilization: Classical and Critical Readings; Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship; Critical Theory After Habermas: Encounters and Departures; Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy; and Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory.

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