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9780761955207 Academic Inspection Copy

Facing Modernity

Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality
  • ISBN-13: 9780761955207
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Barry Smart
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Local release date: 15/03/1999
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 350g
  • Categories: Anthropology [JHM]
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The author of this work contends that an important responsibility of social enquiry is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen with modernity. The book provides a wide-ranging and critical discussion of the respects in which issues of reflexivity, ethics and moral responsibility inform social and political thought. Smart explores the "ambivalent fruits" of social analysis exemplified by the works of Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo, Beck, Bourdieu, Goffman, Giddens, Levinas and Bauman.
Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has longstanding research interests in the fields of social theory, political economy, and philosophy. His research interests include critical social research ethics; higher education; and collaborative work on veganism, ethics, lifestyle and environment.
Analysis after Ambivalence Postmodern In(ter)ventions Reflexivity, Modernity and Sociology Responsible Subjects Body, Self, Community Ethical Relations Indeterminate Justice Morality after Ambivalence
`In the grand tradition of classical social theory, Barry Smart challenges us to face up to the ambivalences of the contemporary moment and to take responsibility for our individual and social existence' - Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles ` A brilliant excursus through modern social theory, Smart's book should be read and re-read for its careful analysis of the dilemmas of morality in postmodernism' - Bryan S Turner, University of Cambridge
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