This book explores the evolution of modernity, highlighting how globalization, individualization, inequalities, and fundamentalism have reshaped societal structures. It argues for a new sociological analysis that recognizes the plurality of answers to fundamental societal questions, emphasizing personal experiences and interpretations of modernity, particularly in Europe.
This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe.
This book explores the possible meanings of the 'Global South' and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation and wider cultural-intellectual meanings.
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