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Preface and Acknowledgements=ix
Introduction: Knowledge, Power and the Self=1
1. The Discourses of Modernity: Enlightenment, Modernism and Fin-de-Siegravecle Sociology=8
The Emergence of Modernity=8
Towards Modernism=14
The Fin-de-Siegravecle Critiques of Modernity=21
Conclusion: Contested Modernities=31
2. Modernity and Secularization: Religion and the Postmodern Challenge=32
Blumenberg and Modernity=34
Modernity and Tradition=42
Postmodernism and Negative Theology=46
Conclusion: Posttraditionalism in Question=50
3. The Pathogenesis of Modernity: The Limits of the Enlightenment=52
Horkheimer and Adorno: Enlightenment as Mass Deception=53
Koselleck: Critique and Crisis=56
Toulmin: Modernity' s Hidden Agenda=60
Voeglin: Modernity as Gnosticism=64
Arendt: The Loss of the Political=66
Conclusion: Developmental Logics=70
4. The Impossibility of Modernity: Cultural Crystallization and the Problem of Contingency=72
Posthistory and Cultural Crystallization=73
Leo Strauss: Modernity as a Loss of Certainty=76
Luhmann: A Self-Limiting Modernity=81
Conclusion: Contingency and Communication=86
5. Rescuing Modernity: The Recovery of the Social=88
Habermas: From History to Discourse=89
Lefebvre and Heller on Everyday Life=100
Castoriadis and Touraine on Modernity and Postmodernity=107
Conclusion: Discursive Space=113
6. Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community=114
What is Community?=115
The Contemporary Rediscovery of Community=119
Beyond Communitarianism: The Postmodernization of Community=122
Community as a Cultural Imaginary=127
Conclusion: Towards a Reflexive Community=130
7. From Modernity to Postmodernity: Post-dialectics and the Aestheticization of the Social=131
Postmodern Aesthetics=133
Postmodernism as Deconstructive Theory=137
Postmodernization=141
Postmodern Politics=146
Conclusion: Postmodernity beyond the West=153
8. Further Reflections: Constructivism beyond Postmodernity=156
Notes=168
References=173
Index=192