Modern Reflex:Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality.;Questions of Modernity.

Goffman, Action, and Risk Society: Aesthetic Reflexivity in Late Modernity

When I decided to write about edgework over twenty-five years ago, I had no idea that I had put myself on a pathway of sustained engagement with one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. As an academic sociologist in the early stages of my career, I felt that I had a good general understanding of Erving Goffman’s most important ideas and a proper appreciation of his uniqu...

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....