ISBN:
9781317118718
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (315 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Parallel Title:
Print version Rundell, John Imaginaries of Modernity : Politics, Cultures, Tensions
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Details of Published Work -- Introduction: Modernity is out of joint -- Imaginary turns in social theory -- Imaginaries of modernity: Tensions, politics, cultures -- Notes -- PART 1: Tensions of modernity -- 1. From communicative modernity to modernities in tension -- Introduction -- Habermas's sociological discourse of modernity -- Contingent imaginaries of modernity -- Tensions, dissonance and publics -- Notes -- 2. Modernity, contingency, dissonance: Luhmann contra Adorno, Adorno contra Luhmann
Abstract:
1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 3. Imagining cities, others: Strangers, contingency and fear -- Introduction -- Strangers in the night -- Daytime: 'City air makes one free' -- The experience of the metropolis: From conditional to contingent strangers -- Night and day: Contingency and fear -- Notes -- PART 2: Political modernities -- 4. Durkheim and the reflexive condition of modernity -- Durkheim: Representation, reflexivity and political modernity -- Collective representations as cultures of reflexivity -- The open reflexive condition of modernity -- Durkheim's political modernity -- Notes
Abstract:
5. Democratic revolutions, power and 'The City': Weber and political modernity -- Multiple modernities: Times and places of revolutions -- A longer kiss goodnight - political modernity -- Weber's 'The City' - another political modernity -- Democracy and the problem of the contemporary circulation of power -- Notes -- 6. Autonomy, oligarchy, statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the fragility of politics -- Introduction -- Explicit power, the political, politics -- Non-legitimate domination in the work of Max Weber - Open and closed circulations of the political -- Notes
Abstract:
7. Power, the state and the closure of politics - On the recent work of Claude Lefort -- Notes -- 8. Tensions of citizenship in an age of diversity: Reflections on territoriality, democracy and symmetrical reciprocity -- Globalisation, nations and citizens -- The condensation of citizenship -- An intersubjective Horizon of cosmopolitan citizenship: Symmetrical reciprocity -- Notes -- 9. From indigenous civilisation to indigenous modernities -- Civilisation and Australia's founding myths -- Hail to thee, Australia's shores/We bring a civilisation
Abstract:
Theorising indigenous civilisation - The social ontology of the sacred -- Civilisational encounters: Multiple modernities, indigenous modernities and inscriptive practices -- Notes -- 10. Intersections and tensions between civilisations and modernities: The case of Oman -- Oman, civilisational history and modernities in tension: Some theoretical reflections -- Oman's thalassic imaginary and absolutist thalassocracy - Expansion and openness to outside worlds -- The period of thalassic Absolutism -- Thalassic neo- or enlightened Absolutism - Reconstructing contemporary Omani modernity
Abstract:
An Omani democratic social imaginary?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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