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Pages: 372
Authors: Richard Madsen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-12-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"This interesting volume of essays on contemporary religion and its ambivalent relationship to modernity not only serves as a testimony to the intellectual infl
Charles Taylor
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Nicholas H. Smith
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-03 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and the problems of modernity. This book provides a comprehensive
Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Donald W. Oliver
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-07-18 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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An indictment of the ideology of modernity, which has resulted in our leading incoherent and fragmented lives, Oliver and Gershman’s book explores the profound
Meaning, Subjectivity, Society
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Karl E. Smith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? This book grapples with these perennial questions, primarily through a dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles
Max Weber's Theory of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Dr Michael Symonds
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world