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Modern social imaginaries

Offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world
Print Book, English, 2004
Duke University Press, Durham, 2004
215 pages ; 21 cm
9780822332558, 9780822332930, 0822332558, 0822332930
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The modern moral order
What is a "social imaginary"?
The specter of idealism
The great disembedding
The economy as objectified reality
The public sphere
Public and private
The sovereign people
An all-pervasive order
The direct-access society
Agency and objectification
Modes of narration
The meaning of secularity
Provincializing Europe