The dark side of modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Social theory between progress and apocalypse
  • Autonomy and domination: Weber's cage
  • Barbarism and modernity: Eisenstadt's regret
  • Integration and justice: Parsons' utopia
  • Despising others: Simmel's stranger
  • Meaning evil
  • De-civilizing the civil sphere
  • Psychotherapy as central institution
  • The frictions of modernity and their possible repair.