The transformation of modernity
Subtitle: aspects of the past, present, and future of an era
By: edited by Mikael Carleheden, Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
Contributors: Carleheden, Mikael.; Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I: General Aspect; title: 1. Time-Consciousness and Transformation: On Modernity's Relation to the Future; title: Nikolas Kompridis; title: 2. From Industrial Modernity to Risk Modernity? A Critical Discussion of the Theory f the 'Risk Society'; title: Klaus Rasborg; title: 3. Early Reflexive Moderity: The Differentiation of Political Reflexiwity; title: Gorm Harste; title: 4. Modernity and Its Archive: The Principle of Insufficient Reason; title: Bo Isenberg; title: 5. Rethinking the Epochs of Western Modernity; title: Mikael Carleheden; title: Part II: Identity, Sexuality and the Intimate Sphere; title: 6. Modern and Postmodern Themes in American Sexual Politics; title: Steven Seidman; title: 7. Private Sexuality, Public Morality and Modern Sexology: What Prospects ef Sexuality in Times of Uncertainty?; title: Michael Hviid Jacobsen; title: 8. 'If People Believe Ideas are Real': Women's Self Perception as Active Individuals in Late Modernity; title: Catharina Juul Kristensen; title: 9. Transformations of Identities in Rapidly Changing Societies; title: Lars Dencik; title: Part III: Globalisation, Knowledge and Democracy; title: 10. Global Society as the Crisis of Democracy; title: Hate Brnkhorst; title: 11. Professions on the Road to Global Power: The Case of the Legal Profession; title: Margareta Bertilsson; title: 12. Modern Reflexive Leadership; title: 0jvimd Larsen.