ISBN:
0520075994
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource, 366-399 S.
Series Statement:
Theory of culture Bd. 2
Series Statement:
New directions in cultural analysis Bd. 2
Angaben zur Quelle:
Online-Ressource, 366-399 S.
DDC:
306.3
Abstract:
Abstract: Whether there is a crisis in advanced industrial societies is open to debate. But there is undeniably a discourse on crisis. Politically, it focuses on the crisis of the welfare state, economically on the ecological limits of growth, and culturally on the loss of meaning in modern life. Even the social sciences, whose job it is to identify and monitor such discourses, are sometimes thought to be affected. Whether the crisis exists or not, there is at least a strong cultural pessimism in intellectual and everyday life that fuels the discourse on crisis. But there is no consensus as to its extent or its character, not even a consensus as to what is meant by a crisis. This makes it difficult to transcend cultural pessimism and turn to social analysis, to an "objectifying" account of this supposed crisis. We will try to clarify the notion of crisis using the German discussion of the "Krise der Arbeitsgesellschaft" or "crisis of the work society" (Matthes 1983). This social science disc
Note:
Postprint
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URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-15088
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-15088
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