This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to ...(展开全部)

THIS MAJOR STUDY DEVELOPS A NEW ACCOUNT OF MODERNITY AND ITS RELATION TO THE SELF. BUILDING UPON THE IDEAS SET OUT IN THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY, GIDDENS ARGUES THAT 'HIGH' OR 'LATE' MODERNITY IS A POST TRADITIONAL ORDER CHARACTERISED BY A DEVELOPED INSTITUTIONAL REFLEXIVITY. IN THE CURRENT PERIOD, THE GLOBALISING TENDENCIES OF MODERN INSTITUTIONS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A TRANSF...(展开全部)

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives - key issues regarding modernity and post-modernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents as well as important questi...(展开全部)

We live in an algorithmic society. Algorithms have become the main mediator through which power is enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields – Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance – into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of algorithms. Editor...(展开全部)

Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal "Herodote" in the mid 1970s...(展开全部)

A critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society and the political crisis posed by cynicism. Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical consciousness, ...(展开全部)

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young peo...(展开全部)

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young peo...(展开全部)