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Civil Repair

Af: Jeffrey C. Alexander Engelsk Paperback

Civil Repair

Af: Jeffrey C. Alexander Engelsk Paperback
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This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of hopeful democracies in the face of dangerous dictatorships to feminist transformations of patriarchy, struggles against imperialism and racial domination, and the stubborn but persistent reconstruction of pivotal institutions. Jeffrey Alexander theorizes these radical reforms as "civil repairs" – as efforts to make real the utopian promises of the civil sphere. Ideal civil spheres make stirring commitments to social solidarity, equality, and individual autonomy. Real civil spheres are rent by anti-civil hierarchies of class, gender, race, and religion.  Contradictions between real and ideal civil spheres generate social movements for justice, which are not only about challenging power but making new and more solidarizing meanings. Civil repair is at once symbolic and institutional. It offers a new way to conceptualize progressive social change.
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This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of hopeful democracies in the face of dangerous dictatorships to feminist transformations of patriarchy, struggles against imperialism and racial domination, and the stubborn but persistent reconstruction of pivotal institutions. Jeffrey Alexander theorizes these radical reforms as "civil repairs" – as efforts to make real the utopian promises of the civil sphere. Ideal civil spheres make stirring commitments to social solidarity, equality, and individual autonomy. Real civil spheres are rent by anti-civil hierarchies of class, gender, race, and religion.  Contradictions between real and ideal civil spheres generate social movements for justice, which are not only about challenging power but making new and more solidarizing meanings. Civil repair is at once symbolic and institutional. It offers a new way to conceptualize progressive social change.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781509506453
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1509506454
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2024
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2024
Forfatter(e): Jeffrey C. Alexander
Forfatter(e) Jeffrey C. Alexander


Kategori Sociologi og antropologi


ISBN-13 9781509506453


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 228mm


Højde 152mm


Udg. Dato 15 nov 2024


Oplagsdato 15 nov 2024


Forlag John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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