by Alain Touraine · Temas de Hoy. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478803026
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«Crítica de la modernidad» is Alain Touraine's sociology essay, published by Temas de Hoy in paperback (502 pages, in Spanish).
Alain Touraine examines the crisis of modernity, which promised reason and progress but ended up imposing the dominance of an enlightened elite. Facing the excluded, Touraine defends a modernity that recognizes differences and combines historical identity with universal reason, to live together without renouncing critique.
The work belongs to the «Ensayo» collection of Temas de Hoy and includes a translation by Mauro Armiño, bibliography and indexes.
It will interest readers of sociological and philosophical essays, and those studying contemporary thought on reason and identity.
Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
