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Buch, Englisch, Band 136, 572 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Paolucci

Acquiring Modernity

An Investigation Into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39394-3
Verlag: Brill

An Investigation Into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World

Buch, Englisch, Band 136, 572 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

ISBN: 978-90-04-39394-3
Verlag: Brill


In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspective but written in accessible everyday language, this book provides a multifaceted account of what makes modern society what it is, from its historical roots to its current conditions.

Neither traditional classroom text nor a work of detailed erudition for the specialist few, Acquiring Modernity draws on material from known historical events, scholarly research, and recent global developments to tell modernity’s story through topics such as the modern classes, religious practice, relations of gender and race, politics, environmental issues, and economic crises. Valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary life and society.

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Preface

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired

2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins

3 Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word

4 The Concept of Society

5 History and Human Development

6 A History of Struggles

7 Mystical Consciousness

8 Illusions to this Day

9 An Inverted World

10 Educating the Educator

11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth

12 Middle Class Snobbism

13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment

14 Social Scum

15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium

16 The Cult of Nature

17 World Literature

18 Modern Society’s All-dominating Power

19 An Impulse Never Before Known

20 Head of the Movement

21 Absurd Epidemics

22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies

23 Machines

24 Rule of the Towns

25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment

26 Solids Melting into Air

27 Civilization and Barbarism

28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire

29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats

30 The Economic Existence of the State

31 Democracy for their Truth

32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost

33 The Executive Committee

34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses

35 Rolling Back the Wheel

36 The Goal of Popular Desire

37 National Egoism

38 Every Sect is Religious

39 Disgusting Despotism

40 The Sycophantic Babblers

41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture

42 The Measure of Social Progress

43 Defiling Republics

44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious

45 The World Market

46 The Political Chessboard

47 Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes

48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs

49 The Sorcerer

50 Prevailing Tendencies

51 Common Ruin

52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds

53 Socialist Sentimentalizing

54 Whether We Want it or Not

55 Afterword

56 Postmodernism?

References

Index


Paul B. Paolucci, Ph.D. (2001), Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University, has published articles on sociological method, mass media, US foreign policy, racism, and books on Marx’s Scientific Dialectics (Brill, 2007) and Marx and the Politics of Abstraction (Brill, 2011).



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