Modernity and Postmodernity

Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool

Introduction Knowledge, Power and the Self The Discourses of Modernity Enlightenment, Modernism and Fin-de-si[e]cle Sociology Modernity and Secularization Religion and the Postmodern Challenge The Pathogenesis of Modernity The Limits of Enlightenment The Impossibility of Modernity Cultural Crystallization and the Problem of Contingency Rescuing Modernity The Recovery of the Social Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community From Modernity to Postmodernity Postdialectics and the Aesthetization of the Social Further Reflections Constructivism beyond Postmodernism