The Search for Fundamentals: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning - Softcover

 
9789048145683: The Search for Fundamentals: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9048145686 ISBN 13: 9789048145683
Verlag: Springer, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative examples in The Search for Fundamentals are used to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. The book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties they experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity.
Audience: A broad readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities.

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Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative examples in The Search for Fundamentals are used to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. The book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties they experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity.
Audience: A broad readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9048145686
ISBN 13 
9789048145683
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Herausgeber
Van Vucht Tijssen Lieteke, Berting Jan, Lechner Frank
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