New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World
by Touraine, AlainEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2007-11-05
Publisher(s): Polity
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Summary
Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English. In this book Touraine presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary world. It is a broad theoretical work which seeks to make sense of everyday experience at the beginning of the 21st century. This is a major new theoretical work by one of the leading sociologists in the world today. A great reference book for those studying sociology and social theory at any level.
Author Biography
A.Touraine, Director, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Translated by G.Elliot
Translated by G.Elliot
Table of Contents
| Introduction: A New Paradigm | p. 1 |
| When We Referred to Ourselves in Social Terms | |
| The Break | p. 9 |
| 9/11 | |
| Fear | |
| A world in decline | |
| Where is meaning to be found? | |
| Globalization | p. 19 |
| From the post-war states to the globalization of the economy | |
| An extreme capitalism | |
| The rupturing of societies | |
| Alter-globalism | |
| From society to war | |
| A globalized world | |
| Europe: A State without a Nation | p. 33 |
| Decline of the national state? | |
| Is European unity possible? | |
| European Union and United States of America | |
| The European state | |
| European powerlessness | |
| The absence of European consciousness | |
| The End of Societies | p. 44 |
| The social representation of society | |
| The European mode of modernization | |
| Society and modernity | |
| The crisis of representation | |
| The three deaths of European society | |
| Irruption of democracy | |
| The return of the political | |
| Farewell to society | |
| The war above us | |
| When system and actors separate off | |
| The rupturing of the social bond | |
| Are we witnessing the end of social movements? | |
| Conclusion | |
| Revisiting the Self | p. 71 |
| What is modernity? | |
| The victory of modernity | |
| The end of social thought | |
| Emancipatory individualism | |
| Forms of social determinism | |
| From focusing on the world to focusing on the self | |
| The awakening of the subject | |
| Now that We Refer to Ourselves in Cultural Terms | |
| The Subject | p. 101 |
| The subject and identity | |
| The sources of the subject | |
| Defence of sociology | |
| The individual subject | |
| Rights | |
| Are we all subjects? | |
| The negation of the subject | |
| A related note | |
| The subject, social movements and the unconscious | |
| Proximity | |
| The subject and religion | |
| The subject and the school | |
| The experience of being a subject | |
| The anti-subject | |
| Between gods and societies | |
| Cultural Rights | p. 144 |
| Political rights and cultural rights | |
| Minorities, multiculturalism, communitarianism | |
| Redistribution and recognition | |
| The new social movements | |
| Modernizations | |
| Entry into the post-social world | |
| Sexual rights | |
| The limits of cultural mixing | |
| About the 'veil' | |
| Communities and communitarianisms | |
| Liberals and communitarians | |
| Secularism | |
| Intercultural communication | |
| Return to new ideas | |
| A Society of Women | p. 184 |
| An altered situation | |
| Equality and difference | |
| Sexuality and gender | |
| The woman-subject | |
| The role of men | |
| Post-feminism | |
| Argument: By Way of Conclusion | p. 208 |
| Bibliography | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 216 |
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