Another Modernity Paperback - 1999
by Lash
In addition to the Enlightenment sense of modernity, there is also another modernity, which brings with it an alternative rationality. Drawing together themes first broached a decade ago, this volume represents Scott Lash's definitive statement in social and cultural theory. It will be of interest to those studying sociology, philosophy, modern languages, and urban and cultural studies.
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This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts.
Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. The book addresses the other modernity's forgotten ground.
The first and second modernities co-existed in a state of irresolvable tension along the history of western industrial capitalism. This is thrown into crisis, Lash argues, with the turn of the twenty-first century emergence of the global information culture. What are the implications of this explosion of first and second modernities into today's technological culture? When the previously existing third space of difference is exploded into the general indifference of information and communication flows? How might we lead our lives in an age in which difference - and indeed the ground itself - become primarily a matter for memory, for mourning?
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- Title Another Modernity
- Author Lash
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 412
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Oxford
- Date 1999-08-25
- ISBN 9780631164999 / 0631164995
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 5.94 x 1.11 in (22.78 x 15.09 x 2.82 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Postmodernism, Sociology - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99047284
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.01
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