Multiple Experiences of Modernity：Toward a Humanist Critique of Modernity

　　Contemporary theories of modernity recognize the plurality or“multiplicity” of modernities, which are often differentiated in terms of their institutional or cultural elements. Although such approaches are important, they fail to provide a clear understanding of the“human consequences” of modernity. Critical Theory, in contrast, has always centered its interest precisely on those human consequences. This book goes further, and looks at (a) the experiences of human beings in, and within, global modernity, and (b) the affinities and differences we can identify in these experiences. Also, while Critical Theory has been mainly interested in Western experiences, this book addresses other parts of the world as well, in an intercultural perspective.

Oliver Kozlarek
Experiences of Modernity and the Modernity of Experience

I. Conceptualizing Human Experiences

François Dubet
Society and Social Experience

Carlos Ímaz Gispert
Unfreezing the Subject. Subjectivity, Narrative and Socially-Contextualized Interactions

Anna Popovitch
From Ideology to Structures of Feeling. Raymond Williams on Culture and Society

Saurabh Dube
Unraveling Modernity: Subjects and Scandals

II. The Multiplicity of Human Experiences with and within a Global Modernity

Raewyn Connell
Antipodes. Australian Sociology’s Struggles with Place, Memory and Neoliberalism

Bidhan Roy
Imagining a World of inequality : Representing Class Identities in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission

III. Latin American Experiences

Luis Villoro
A Negative Path towards Justice

Nicola Miller
Incorrigibly Plural: Translating the Modern in Latin America, 1870 to 1930

Lidia Girola
Sociocultural Imaginaries of Modernity. Recent contributions and dimensions of analysis for the construction of a research agenda

Notes on Contributors

作者簡介



　　Oliver Kozlarek researches and teaches at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexiko. His research focuses on modernity and globalization theories, critical theory, humanism and Latin American thoughts and ideas.