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Tables of Contents for Modernity and Postmodernity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Knowledge, Power and the Self
1
7
The Discourses of Modernity: Enlightenment, Modernism and Fin-de-Siecle Sociology
8
24
The Emergence of Modernity
8
6
Towards Modernism
14
7
The Fin-de-Siecle Critiques of Modernity
21
10
Conclusion: Contested Modernities
31
1
Modernity and Secularization: Religion and the Postmodern Challenge
32
20
Blumenberg and Modernity
34
8
Modernity and Tradition
42
4
Postmodernism and Negative Theology
46
4
Conclusion: Posttraditionalism in Question
50
2
The Pathogenesis of Modernity: The Limits of the Enlightenment
52
20
Horkheimer and Adorno: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
53
3
Koselleck: Critique and Crisis
56
4
Toulmin: Modernity's Hidden Agenda
60
4
Voeglin: Modernity as Gnosticism
64
2
Arendt: The Loss of the Political
66
4
Conclusion: Developmental Logics
70
2
The Impossibility of Modernity: Cultural Crystallization and the Problem of Contingency
72
16
Posthistory and Cultural Crystallization
73
3
Leo Strauss: Modernity as a Loss of Certainty
76
5
Luhmann: A Self-Limiting Modernity
81
5
Conclusion: Contingency and Communication
86
2
Rescuing Modernity: The Recovery of the Social
88
26
Habermas: From History to Discourse
89
11
Lefebvre and Heller on Everyday Life
100
7
Castoriadis and Touraine on Modernity and Postmodernity
107
6
Conclusion: Discursive Space
113
1
Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community
114
17
What is Community?
115
4
The Contemporary Rediscovery of Community
119
3
Beyond Communitarianism: The Postmodernization of Community
122
5
Community as a Cultural Imaginary
127
3
Conclusion: Towards a Reflexive Community
130
1
From Modernity to Postmodernity: Post-dialectics and the Aestheticization of the Social
131
25
Postmodern Aesthetics
133
4
Postmodernism as Deconstructive Theory
137
4
Postmodernization
141
5
Postmodern Politics
146
7
Conclusion: Postmodernity beyond the West
153
3
Further Reflections: Constructivism beyond Postmodernity
156
12
Notes
168
5
References
173
19
Index
192