{"product_id":"the-end-of-illusions-politics-economy-and-culture-in-late-modernity-paperback-softback-9781509545704","title":"The End of Illusions; Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509545704","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe End of Illusions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndreas Reckwitz (Author), Valentine A. Pakis (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509545704, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a fascinating read, truly imaginative and remarkably wide-ranging. Andreas Reckwitz presents a compelling, novel outlook on the global challenges ahead.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Baert, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe End of Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e, Reckwitz conducts a ‘socio-analysis’ of a patient known as late modernity and reveals the contradictions, paradoxes, and anomalies that characterize contemporary society. The hard work involved in this sobering analysis pays off: while pathways toward a better society are neither obvious nor linear, embracing today's ambiguities opens up spaces to reimagine our shared futures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrs Gasser, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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 \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 molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization 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 singularization and polarization 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 fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Disillusioned Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProgress, Dystopia, Nostalgia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisillusionment as an Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Industrial Modernity to the Society of Singularities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.    Cultural Conflict as a Struggle over Culture:\u003cbr\u003eHyperculture and Cultural Essentialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culturalization of the Social\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulturalization I: Hyperculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulturalization II: Cultural Essentialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHyperculture and Cultural Essentialism: Between Coexistence and Conflict\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Doing Universality” – The Culture of the General as an Alternative?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2.    From the Leveled Middle-Class Society to the Three-Class Society:\u003cbr\u003eThe New Middle Class, the Old Middle Class, and the Precarious Class\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Global and Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderlying Conditions: Post-Industrialization, the Expansion of Education, a Shift in Values \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Paternoster Elevator of the Three-Class Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization and Urban Cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Middle Class: Sedentariness, Order, and Cultural Defensiveness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Precarious Class: Muddling Through and Losing Status\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Upper Class: Distance due to Assets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCross-Sectional Characteristics: Gender, Migration, Regions, Milieus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Trend toward Political Polarization and Future Social Scenarios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3.    Beyond Industrial Society:\u003cbr\u003ePolarized Post-Industrialism and Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Industrial Fordism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Saturation Crisis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Production Crisis and Polarized Post-Industrialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlobalization, Neoliberalism, Financialization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCognitive Capitalism and Immaterial Capital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Goods and Cultural Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner-Take-All Markets: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Scalability and Attractiveness of Cognitive and Cultural Goods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtreme Capitalism: The Economization of the Social\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4.    The Weariness of Self-Actualization:\u003cbr\u003eThe Late-Modern Individual and the Paradoxes of Emotional Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Self-Discipline to Self-Actualization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuccessful Self-Actualization: An Ambitious Dual Structure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture of Self-Actualization as a Generator of Negative Emotions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWays Out of the Spiral of Disappointment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.    The Crisis of Liberalism and the Search for the New Political Paradigm:\u003cbr\u003eFrom Apertistic to Regulatory Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Paradigms and Political Paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProblems and Solutions: Between the Paradigms of Regulation and Dynamization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of the Social-Corporatist Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Crisis of Overregulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of the Paradigm of Apertistic Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Threefold Crisis of Apertistic Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopulism as a Symptom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Regulatory Liberalism” as the Paradigm of the Future?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges Facing Regulatory 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