{"product_id":"9780631175865","title":"Modernity and Identity","description":"\u003ch1\u003eModernity and Identity\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eScott Lash | Jonathan Friedman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eModernity and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernism are centered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of the otherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a matter of movement, of flux, of change and of unpredictability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernity and postmodernity are shown to mean, not the 'end of the subject' but the transformation and creation of new forms of subjectivity. Anthropological concepts are brought squarely into the heart of the modernity controversies, which are then recast in the context of tradition, globalization and of the crisis of identity in a newly de-centred world system.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe possibility of a third way is opened up, rejecting the opposition between the impersonal rationality of high modernism and the rationalist anti-ethics of postmodernism. The vision in this book is that of another modernity, which counter-poses Baudelaire to Rousseau, and loyalist ethics to abstract blueprints for social and political reorganization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology, urban studies and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cb\u003eScott Lash\u003c\/b\u003e lectures in sociology at Lancaster University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe End of Organized Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) with John Urry; \u003ci\u003eMax Weber, Rationality and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) with Sam Whimster and \u003ci\u003eSociology of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/b\u003e teaches anthropology at the universities of Lund and Copenhagen. He has written widely on culture and globalization in \u003ci\u003eReview and Theory, Culture and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written \u003ci\u003eSystem, Structure and Contradiction in the Evolution of \"Asiatic\" Social Formations\u003c\/i\u003e (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15 April 1992\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780631175865\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e392\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44380585328780,"sku":"9780631175865","price":52.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780631175865_3a8f8e29-d80c-4be2-980e-1583cdf25882.jpg?v=1780105068","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780631175865","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}