The Consequences of Modernity, Paperback - Anthony Giddens

Reducere. In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modern...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

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Every decision we make in life results in a consequence. Whether those consequences are good or bad can sometimes take a while to realize. Especial...

Reducere. Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the dist...

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade.

Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in G...

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Literary artists such T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th cen...

Virtually all Christians recognize the centrality of the Bible to their faith. Yet many Christians misquote and misapply Scripture regularly. Often...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

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Reducere. In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across...

Reducere. Plato. Aquinas. Descartes. Kant. Freud. These great thinkers are still impacting the culture today--from public-policy decisions to world events, t...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Jacqueline WinspearNumber of pages: 352Collection: Maisie DobbsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 30C...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Jacqueline WinspearNumber of pages: 352Collection: Maisie DobbsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 348 x 142 x 24C...

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. Rob Shields has here deve...

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An environmental history of Southern California's Salton Sea, the state's largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental a...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Jose M. FaraldoNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

In the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and soci...

Shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation

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Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profi...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David PedullaIllustration(s): 21 b/w illus. 5 tables.Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secu...

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Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitali...

Reducere. "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth ...

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What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life, " a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped-...

Reducere. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technolo...

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Reducere. DescriptionPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and w...

Considers the impact of technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and ch...

This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

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