Acquiring modernity : : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world /

Acquiring modernity : : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world / / by Paul B. Paolucci.

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In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspective but written in accessible everyday language, this book provides a multifaceted account of what makes modern society what it is, from its historical...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume136
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Paolucci, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume136.
Physical Description:1 online resource (594 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired
  • Speculation Ends, Science Begins
  • Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word
  • The Concept of Society
  • History and Human Development
  • A History of Struggles
  • Mystical Consciousness
  • Illusions to this Day
  • An Inverted World
  • Educating the Educator
  • Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth
  • Middle Class Snobbism
  • Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment
  • Social Scum
  • Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium
  • The Cult of Nature
  • World Literature
  • Modern Society’s All-dominating Power
  • An Impulse Never Before Known
  • Head of the Movement
  • Absurd Epidemics
  • Swindling Joint-stock Companies
  • Machines
  • Rule of the Towns
  • Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment
  • Solids Melting into Air
  • Civilization and Barbarism
  • Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire
  • Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats
  • The Economic Existence of the State
  • Democracy for their Truth
  • Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost
  • The Executive Committee
  • Modern Mythology and its Goddesses
  • Rolling Back the Wheel
  • The Goal of Popular Desire
  • National Egoism
  • Every Sect is Religious
  • Disgusting Despotism
  • The Sycophantic Babblers
  • Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture
  • The Measure of Social Progress
  • Defiling Republics
  • A Fetish Dark and Mysterious
  • The World Market
  • The Political Chessboard
  • Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes
  • Gravedigging Megalomaniacs
  • The Sorcerer
  • Prevailing Tendencies
  • Common Ruin
  • Chains, Riddles, Worlds
  • Socialist Sentimentalizing
  • Whether We Want it or Not
  • Afterword
  • Postmodernism?.

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