ISBN:
9780415114691
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (175 p)
Series Statement:
International Library of Sociology
Series Statement:
International Library of Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Badlands of Modernity
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Dystopias
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Human geography
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Human territoriality
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Social psychology
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Space (Architecture)
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Spatial behavior
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Utopias
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that modernity originates through an interplay between ideas of utopia and heterotopia and heterotopic spatial practice. The Palais Royal during the French Revolution, the masonic lodge and in its relationship to civil society and the public sphere and the early factories of the Industrial Revolution are
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Palais Royal as modernity; Margins, orderings and the laboratories of society; Two castles Heterotopia as sites of alternate ordering; The utopics of modernity; Secret virtues, Euclidean spaces Freemasonry, Solomon's Temple and the lodge; The factory for itself; The space of the horizon; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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