Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23624313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Lash (0000-0002-3912-6896, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 355-377 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Max Weber Ration & Modern MW5 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315823935-22 |
| OpenAlex | W3004962604 |
| ISBN | 9781315823935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
A number of chapters in this book address – directly or indirectly – the issue of what is distinctive about modern social life. Here, in keeping with much of the best and predominant currents of sociological wisdom, ‘the modern’ is mainly understood in contradistinction to the traditional. More specifically, most of those who characterize our times, and Weber&s;s times, in terms of the modern are speaking about modernity . Conventional usage has habitually spoken of modernity as an era that was ushered in via the Renaissance, rationalist philosophy and the Enlightenment, on the one hand, and the transition from the absolutist state to bourgeois democracies, on the other. What I want to argue in the pages that follow cuts somewhat strongly against the grain of this position. It is that our times and ‘the modern’ should be understood, not as modernity, but in terms of modernism . Whereas modernity was inaugurated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern ism is usually taken as a paradigm change in the arts which began at the end of the nineteenth century. I wish to propose, however, that not only contemporary arts but contemporary social practices, taken more generically, can be understood in terms of modernism. Further, my claim here is that modernism registers a fundamental break with the assumptions of modernity.
Epistemology · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |