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In it Touraine situates his original and now classical sociological thought – on post-industrialism, on new social movements, on nationhood and identity – in the context of a mmodernity crisis and critique of modernity. Literature and the Long Modernity.
La parole et le sang voice and blood. Hegel, Heidegger, and After. Born in Hermanville France in l, son of Albert Touraine and Odette Cleret, husband of Adriana Arenas marriage indeceased in ; 2 children: He began his academic career as history lecturer in l, to become first assistant and then researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, where he remained until l Equal and different Polity Press and Beyond Neo-liberalism?
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During this second period, he concentrated his interests on the study of Latin America, and more generally on the problems of development. Birth of the Subject. A Response to Habermas’s Misreading of Hegel.
No categories specified categorize this paper. He begins by recalling the triumph of rationalist conceptions of modernity, then traces the destruction, in both thought and social practices, of that idea of modernity, through the critiques of consciousness From modernity triumphant to modernity in crisis, Touraine charts a course through a complex history, setting the scene for his reinterpretation of the modern in the final section of the book.
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Witold Nowak – – Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 2 2: Alain Touraine is a frequent speaker at conferences and participates in various symposia and political and intellectual discussions both in France and abroad.
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His latest books, translated into English are: Redefining modernity as a tense relationship between Reason and Subject, rationalization and subjectivation, the spirit of the Renaissance and the spirit of Reformation, and moedrnity and freedom, the author establishes a position as far removed from today’s declining modernism, as it is from the phantom of “postmodernity” show more.
His last book, written with Farhad Khosrokhavar, La recherche de soi. Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University’s proxy server Configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy.
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Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Alain Touraine has taken part in several Committees and Commissions such as The Commission for University Reform lthe Commission of Counselors of the Minister for Research and Akain Studies, the Commission of studies on “Nationality” lthe Committee on ethics in Parisian hospitals land the Minc Commission on the challenges of the year Critique of Modernity l, BlackwellWhat crigique democracy? Request removal from index.
Throughout his life he has tried to link together different types of studies: He is the author of numerous books and essays translated into several languages. He spent l in Poland studying Solidarnosc and wrote, in Latin America, a book which was first published in Chile, then adapted, written again and published in France under the title: The Light of Reason. He is the author of many books, among which: This book is a critique and reinterpretation of modernity by social thinker, Alain Touriane.
Polity Press illustrate his main idea of a Self considered as the central principle of action for social movements See, too: He begins by recalling the triumph of rationalist conceptions of modernity, then traces the destruction, in both thought and social practices, of that idea of modernity, through the critiques of consciousness and reason elaborated by Nietzsche and Freud, and in the rise of consumer society and mass communications.
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