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Critique of Modernity (French: Critique de la modernité) is a 1992 book by the French sociologist Alain Touraine. It attempts to offer a critique of modernity which is neither antimodern nor postmodern, but proposes a rebuilt modernity based on the subject's liberation.
- Alain Touraine
- 1992
Mar 3, 2019 · Critique of modernity. by. Touraine, Alain. Publication date. 1995. Topics. Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy, History, Modern -- Philosophy. Publisher. Cambridge, MA.
I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modernity was his work on two crucial concept pairs: freedom/power and reason/mad-ness.
Jun 27, 2024 · Summary. Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postmodernism. In the following three chapters, we will discuss a number of topics that have thus far remained largely implicit. Much humanities research makes substantial but often tacit assumptions about * modernity, about relations between men and women, and about the relation of Europe or ...
This re-theorizing of modernity through interpretations of autonomy and mastery prompts two primary interpretations of modernity, one affirmative and the other critical. Talcott Parsons, the main protagonist of modernity, claimed that the United States was the most prominent example of a modern society because of its commitment to
Much humanities research makes substantial but often tacit assumptions about modernity; about relations between men and women; and about the relation of Europe, or the West, and the rest of the world. When these assumptions are made explicit, they can also be subjected to a more systematic critique, as is done in a number of contemporary ...
May 21, 2010 · I offer a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida.
