The Lonelinesses of Modernity
A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 4 January 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783658401436
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XXVIII, 226 p. 676
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Short description:
Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.
The author
Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book would look stylistically different from a conventional translation.
Long description:
Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. On the concept of modernity.- 2. communities of the pre-modern era.- 3. the onset of modernization.- 4. disorientation and abandonment: the lonelinesses of the early modern era.- 5. lonely time diagnoses of the industrial high modern era.- 6. the lonelinesses of the late modern era.- 7. life in the network society and the escalation of the late modern lonelinesses.- 8. has the post-modern era already begun?.
