{"product_id":"thinking-differently-hardback-9780745645735","title":"Thinking Differently (Hardback) 9780745645735","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThinking Differently\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlain Touraine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745645735, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 April 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.499 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‘Once again, as so many times before, by thinking differently Alain Touraine allows us to do the same. No one so easily cuts against the grain to show his readers how better to join the hard boards of social and political life.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharles Lemert, author of \u003ci\u003eThinking the Unthinkable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘Touraine's analyses of modernity and the subject, of social movements and of the meaning of freedom, are concise, original and indeed provocative for all those who cling to conventional wisdoms. The book combines wisdom with commitment, the experience of the scholar with the relentless questioning typical of a great mind.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Wagner, Trento 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\"\u003eIn his previous books Alain Touraine analysed the great changes that have transformed our personal and collective lives; in this new book he shows that we need to transform our ways of thinking about these changes. The very idea of society is in crisis: globalization and the liberation of desires from taboos have led to the collapse of the old social order. In our societies today, good and evil can no longer be defined by institutions; self-awareness is more important than the awareness of rules and subjects have become their own creators.  \u003cp\u003eTaking as his starting point a critique of what he calls the Dominant Interpretive Discourse, which tried throughout the twentieth century to impose the idea of a society without actors that was subject to various kinds of determinism (especially economic determinism), Touraine argues that the only principle that allows us to evaluate individual behaviour and social situations is the recognition of the political, social and cultural rights of all human beings, who are viewed as free and equal. The individual must be seen as a subject and treated as the cornerstone of a reconstructed sociology. Whereas some denounce individualism, the author celebrates a subjectivation that involves the defence of the rights of all against all modes of social integration. This general line of argument is made concrete through an analysis of the subordination of women, the exclusion of minorities and the difficulties young people face at school and at work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis major new book represents in many ways the culmination of twenty years of theoretical reflection which began with Critique of Modernity and which have established Touraine as one of the leading figures of contemporary social thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSTARTING POINT.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: A BLIND SOCIETY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ONE: DOING AWAY WITH THE DOMINANT INTERPRETIVE DISCOURSE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO: THE IMAGINARY REVOLUTION.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE: KILLING THE SUBJECT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR: DEFENSIVE POLICIES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE: LIGHT AND SHADE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SIX : INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO: THE THEATRE FILLS UP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN: MODERNITY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT: THE SUBJECT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER NINE: CONFLICTS AND MOVEMENTS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TEN: THE SUBJECT, THE OTHER, AND OTHERS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePOINT OF ARRIVAL.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREFERENCES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINDEX.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407312548120,"sku":"9780745645735","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745645735.jpg?v=1784160843","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thinking-differently-hardback-9780745645735","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}