Facing modernity : ambivalence, reflexivity and morality
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Facing modernity : ambivalence, reflexivity and morality
(Theory, culture and society)
SAGE, 1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Barry Smart offers a wide-ranging and critical discussion of how issues of reflexivity, ethics and moral responsibility inform social and political thought. Through a critical discussion of the `ambivalent fruits' of social analysis, exemplified in particular by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo, Beck, Bourdieu, Goffman, Giddens, Levinas and Bauman, this book submits that an important responsibility of social enquiry today is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen in relation to modernity.
Table of Contents
Analysis after Ambivalence
Postmodern In(ter)ventions
Reflexivity, Modernity and Sociology
Responsible Subjects
Body, Self, Community
Ethical Relations
Indeterminate Justice
Morality after Ambivalence
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