{"title":"Andreas Reckwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndreas Reckwitz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into contemporary social theory, exploring the intricacies of modernity and its transformations. His works delve into the cultural and societal shifts that shape today’s world, challenging conventional understandings of social structures and individual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis on topics such as cultural singularities, social crises, and the changing nature of collective life. Reckwitz’s books provide a compelling perspective for anyone interested in the critical examination of social dynamics and the future of modern societies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-end-of-illusions-by-andreas-reckwitz-9781509545704","title":"The End of Illusions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another, and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is moulded by polarisation and paradoxes. The pervasive singularisation of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularisation and polarisation as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfilment, and the political crisis of liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on his path-breaking work \u003ci\u003eThe Society of Singularities\u003c\/i\u003e, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461533843692,"sku":"9781509545704","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509545704-the-end-of-illusions.jpg?v=1774970707"},{"product_id":"late-modernity-in-crisis-by-andreas-reckwitz-9781509556304","title":"Late Modernity in Crisis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyse the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways out of the crises we face. Over the last couple of decades, two German sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, have sought to provide wide-ranging social theories of this kind. While their theories are very different, they share in common the view that the analysis of modernity as a social formation must be kept at the heart of sociology, and that the theory of society should ultimately serve to diagnose the crises of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLate Modernity in Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa join forces to examine the value and the limits of a theory of society today. They provide clear and concise accounts of their own theories of society, explicate their key concepts—including \"singularization\" in the case of Reckwitz, \"acceleration\" and \"resonance\" in the case of Rosa—and draw out the implications of their theories for understanding the multiple crises we face today. The result is a book that provides both an excellent introduction to the work of two of the most important sociologists writing today and a vivid demonstration of the value of the kind of bold social theory of modern societies that they espouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463430062316,"sku":"9781509556304","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509556304-late-modernity-in-crisis.jpg?v=1775032754"},{"product_id":"society-of-singularities-by-andreas-reckwitz-9781509534227","title":"Society of Singularities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardised products, cities, subjects and organisations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern societies, we value the exceptional—unique objects, experiences, places, individuals, events and communities which are beyond the ordinary and which claim a certain authenticity. Industrial society’s logic of the general has been replaced by late modernity’s logic of the particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this major new book, \u003cem\u003eSociety of Singularities\u003c\/em\u003e, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live. The transformation from industrial to cultural capitalism, the rise of digital technologies and their ‘culture machine’ and the emergence of an educated, urban new middle class form a powerful engine for the singularisation of the social. In late modernity, what is singular is valorised and stirs the emotions, while what is general has to remain in the background, and this has profound social consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe society of singularities systematically produces devaluation and inequality: winner-takes-all markets, job polarisation, the neglect of rural regions and the alienation of the traditional middle class. 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