Historians and modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

War, medicine and modernity

This collection, the editors believe, is the first volume to bring together the themes of war, medicine and modernity. By contrast to cultural historians for whom "modernityand modernism becomes little more than a prelude to the invention of post-modernity", theirs is the modernity of Max Weber rather than of Igor Stravinsky-a nexus of government, bureaucracy, the military, and the professions....

Modernity and Technology

Tom Misa indicates in a proposition in his chapter. This implies a further proposition about technology and modernity being interconnected. It is this idea of interconnectedness that led us to deplore the “great divide” between detailed technology studies, with their claim of situated developments and contingency, and abstract or theoretical discussions of modernity. We exaggerated a bit in ord...