Kozlarek Multiple Experiences of Modernity

Toward a Humanist Critique of Modernity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0229-1
Verlag: V&R unipress
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 007, Part, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Reflections on (In)Humanity

Contemporary theories of modernity recognize the plurality or 'multiplicity' of modernities. Often the differences are seen as institutional or cultural differences. Although this sort of research is important it cannot be ignored that it does not provide a clear understanding of the 'human consequences'. The tradition that today is known under the name of Critical Theory, on the contrary, has been interested always first of all in the human consequences. This book wants to follow this ambition. The question it tries to search answers for is: what are the experiences that human beings are making in and within global modernity? Another question is important: what are the affinities and what are the differences. Also Critical Theory was mainly interested in the Western experiences with and within global modernity. The book will challenge this limited view by looking how modernities is experienced in other parts of the world.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Kozlarek lehrt und forscht an der Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexiko.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kozlarek, Oliver

Weitere Mitwirkende

Antohi, Sorin

Huang, Chun-chieh

Rüsen, Jörn

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Oliver Kozlarek: Preface and Acknowledgments;7
6;Oliver Kozlarek: Experiences of Modernity and the Modernity of Experience;9
6.1;1 World-consciousness and experience: a modern quest;10
6.2;2 Critical Theory, world-consciousness and experience;23
6.3;3 Hints of an experiential theory of modernity;31
6.4;4 Towards a modern world of all human beings;34
6.5;5 About this book;35
6.6;References;39
7;I Conceptualizing Human Experiences;43
8;François Dubet: Society and Social Experience;45
8.1;1 Action, role and society;45
8.2;2 The decline of the notion of society;48
8.3;3 Why speak of social experience?;51
8.4;4 The trials of the individual;54
8.5;References;56
9;Carlos Ímaz Gispert: Unfreezing the Subject. Subjectivity, Narrative and Socially-Contextualized Interactions;59
9.1;Revalorizing human subjectivity;64
9.2;Other antecedents and references;66
9.3;Searching for alternative paths;68
9.4;References;71
10;Anna Popovitch: From Ideology to Structures of Feeling. Raymond Williams on Culture and Society;75
10.1;Introduction;75
10.2;1 “Structure of feeling” versus “ideology”;76
10.3;2 The romantic artist;83
10.4;3 Concluding remarks;87
10.5;References;91
11;Saurabh Dube: Unraveling Modernity: Subjects and Scandals;93
11.1;Overture;93
11.2;Unsettling modernity;94
11.3;Untangling modernity;97
11.4;Articulating modernity;102
11.5;Coda;109
11.6;References;112
12;II The Multiplicity of Human Experiences with and within a Global Modernity;115
13;Raewyn Connell: Antipodes. Australian Sociology's Struggles with Place, Memory and Neoliberalism;117
13.1;Introduction;117
13.2;1 Orientation;118
13.3;2 Introducing Australia;119
13.4;3 Sociology's antipodes;121
13.5;4 Settler society, social science, and the lost leader;122
13.6;5 Tectonic illusion: the antipodes become metropole;125
13.7;6 Critical empiricism and the neoliberal turn;127
13.8;7 Rediscovering place;129
13.9;8 Conclusion: the spectrum of Southern sociologies;130
13.10;References;131
14;Bidhan Roy: Imagining a World of inequality: Representing Class Identities in Hari Kunzru's Transmission;135
14.1;1 Theorizing the effects of globalization upon class identities;137
14.2;2 The whole situation was very old economy: Hari Kunzru's Transmission;147
14.3;References;156
15;III Latin American Experiences;157
16;Luis Villoro: A Negative Path towards Justice;159
16.1;1 Escape from unjust power;160
16.2;2 The first moment: the experience of exclusion;163
16.3;3 The second moment: equivalence with the excluders;165
16.4;4 A parenthesis: human rights and dissent;169
16.5;5 The third moment: recognizing the other en route to a concrete ethics;171
16.6;6. Universal human rights;175
16.7;References;178
17;Nicola Miller: Incorrigibly Plural: Translating the Modern in Latin America, 1870 to 1930;179
17.1;1 Liberating reason from the rationalists;182
17.2;2 Preserving history from progress;188
17.3;Conclusion;195
17.4;References;196
18;Lidia Girola: Sociocultural Imaginaries of Modernity. Recent contributions and dimensions of analysis for the construction of a research agenda;199
18.1;Introduction;199
18.2;1 A Tentative definition of modern social imaginaries;201
18.3;2 Society as economy;204
18.4;3 Society as public sphere;205
18.5;4 Society as democracy;206
18.6;5 Society as horizontal structure;207
18.7;6 Modern narratives;208
18.8;7 The dark side of modern social imaginaries;209
18.9;8 Some critical commentaries regarding Taylor's formulations on modern social imaginaries;210
18.10;9 What are the components of modern social imaginaries in Mexico and Latin America? A pending agenda;212
18.11;References;221
19;Notes on Contributors;225

Über Autor(innen)

Huang, Chun-chieh
Prof Dr Chun-chieh Huang is National Chair Professor and Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Kozlarek, Oliver
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kozlarek lehrt und forscht an der Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexiko.

Rüsen, Jörn
Prof Dr Jörn Rüsen ist Senior Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Essen und Professor emeritus an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.