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Acquiring modernity : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world /
In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspective but written in accessible everyday language, this book provides a multifaceted account of what makes modern society what it is, from its historical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Koninklijke Brill NV,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 136. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Acquiring Modernity; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; 1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired; 2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins; 3 Divesting Philosophy's Ultimate Word; 4 The Concept of Society; 5 History and Human Development; 6 A History of Struggles; 7 Mystical Consciousness; 8 Illusions to this Day; 9 An Inverted World; 10 Educating the Educator; 11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth; 12 Middle Class Snobbism; 13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment; 14 Social Scum; 15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium; 16 The Cult of Nature; 17 World Literature
- 18 Modern Society's All-dominating Power 19 An Impulse never Before Known; 20 Head of the Movement; 21 Absurd Epidemics; 22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies; 23 Machines; 24 Rule of the Towns; 25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment; 26 Solids Melting into Air; 27 Civilization and Barbarism; 28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire; 29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats; 30 The Economic Existence of the State; 31 Democracy for their Truth; 32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost; 33 The Executive Committee; 34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses; 35 Rolling Back the Wheel
- 36 The Goal of Popular Desire 37 National Egoism; 38 Every Sect is Religious; 39 Disgusting Despotism; 40 The Sycophantic Babblers; 41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture; 42 The Measure of Social Progress; 43 Defiling Republics; 44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious; 45 The World Market; 46 The Political Chessboard; 47 Throwing Dust in People's Eyes; 48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs; 49 The Sorcerer; 50 Prevailing Tendencies; 51 Common Ruin; 52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds; 53 Socialist Sentimentalizing; 54 Whether We Want it or Not; 55 Afterword; 56 Postmodernism?; References; Index