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.
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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 1
3.10;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