Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives

Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its AlternativesBauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.

Looking out of his window one night he sees two suspicious men following Father Brown to a bridge

politics and the representation of Antigone – a figure frequently used and abused in feminist politics

one that emphasises its value monism

the suppression of dissent

It provides fascinating parallel studies of France

comprising both social and material elements

either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs…these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical incidents or natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories

and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting

Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia

whilst setting them in a contextual and practical framework

In the contemporary context of global information exchange through linked data