Part I Principles of modernity 1 Modes of narrating modernity 2 Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions Part II The first crisis of modernity 3 Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project 4 Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia Part III The closure of modernity 5 Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices 6 Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices 7 Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation Part IV The second crisis of modernity 8 Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity 9 Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representation 10 Modernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding Part V Towards extended liberal modernity? 11 Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity
Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute University of Trento, Italy)
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