Die Zeit in Gedanken erfasst, die Lage auf den Begriff gebracht: Neue Literatur zur Gesellschaft der Gegenwart
The paper provides an analysis of recent attempts in German sociology to understand obvious trends in contemporary society. There seems to be a huge demand for explaining uncertainties and discontent. However, the books by Habermas, Amlinger/ Nachtwey, Nassehi, Kaube/ Kieserling and Mau/ Lux/ Westhe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | German |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Philosophische Rundschau
Year: 2024, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 359-383 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society VA Philosophy ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Polarization
B Book review B social fragmentation B Crisis |
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| Summary: | The paper provides an analysis of recent attempts in German sociology to understand obvious trends in contemporary society. There seems to be a huge demand for explaining uncertainties and discontent. However, the books by Habermas, Amlinger/ Nachtwey, Nassehi, Kaube/ Kieserling and Mau/ Lux/ Westheuser reviewed in this article produce widely divergent results and leave the main question open if there are real grounds for the feelings and sayings that Western societies are in an existential crisis.Jürgen Habermas, Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2022. 109 S. Carolin Amlinger/Oliver Nachtwey, Gekränkte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2022. 478 S. Armin Nassehi, Unbehagen - Theorie der überforderten Gesellschaft, München: C. H. Beck, 2021. 384 S. Jürgen Kaube/André Kieserling, Die gespaltene Gesellschaft, Berlin: Rowohlt: S. Fischer, 2022. 286 S. Steffen Mau/Thomas Lux/Linus Westheuser, Triggerpunkte - Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2023. 535 S. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-7261 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophische Rundschau
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/phr-2024-0030 |
