by Alain Touraine · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213030050
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«Critique de la modernité» is the philosophical and sociological essay by Alain Touraine, published by Fayard in paperback (462 pages, in French).
Alain Touraine analyzes how modernity, conceived as the triumph of reason and the overcoming of traditions, has been challenged by those who claim their particular experience. Against postmodern relativism, he proposes to rebuild it from the original dualism between reason and subject, rationalization and subjectivation, memory and freedom.
Originally published in 1992 by Fayard, the work includes bibliographical references and an index.
Recommended for readers of philosophy and sociology interested in contemporary social thought.
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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.
