Theorizing Modernity
Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory
- Peter Wagner - University of Barcelona, Spain, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain
`Modernity has to be understood in terms of problems, not solutions. In reflections ranging from epistemology to political theory, Peter Wagner develops an understanding of modernity in terms of inescapable problems for which only transitory solutions can be found - and opposes this convincing conception to the declarations of a new epoch of postmodernity or reflexive modernity. Balanced and innovative, this book is a must for all readers interested in social theory and the diagnosis of our time' - Professor Hans Joas, Free University Berlin