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Journal of Modern Literature, 2023
Abstract: In Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex , Timothy Wientzen explores an influential turn toward reflex in modernist literature and culture. Tracing early research on unconscious human behavior through the fields of experimental psychology, propaganda, advertising, and political theory, the book argues that a new politics ...
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Abstract: In Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex , Timothy Wientzen explores an influential turn toward reflex in modernist literature and culture. Tracing early research on unconscious human behavior through the fields of experimental psychology, propaganda, advertising, and political theory, the book argues that a new politics ...
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An Exploration of the “Reflex” in Reflexive Modernity
Organization & Environment, 1999An increasingly larger portion of the environmental movement claims that environmental destruction can only be stopped when our concern about environmental destruction is coupled with an “ecological consciousness,” that is, a wholistic understanding of the relationship between self, society, and nature.
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2020
Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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Interrogating Reflexive Modernity
2013Over the past twenty years a thesis has been gaining ground in sociology that globalization, the revolution of communication technologies and the widespread acceptance of neoliberal ideas have led to the growth of a society qualitatively different from anything the world has seen before.
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Reflexive Modernization: Connecting the Environment with Modernity and Modernization
2013This chapter offers an analytical overview of Reflexive Modernization (RM). It provides a detailed presentation of the two constituent dimensions of RM: the risk society and the ecological modernization (EM) perspectives. It discusses how both dimensions resonate with certain approaches to environmentalism and, more particularly, how EM sits alongside ...
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The Theory of Reflexive Modernization
Theory, Culture & Society, 2003How can one distinguish the concept of second modernity from the concept of postmodernity? Postmodernists are interested in deconstruction without reconstruction, second modernity is about deconstruction and reconstruction. Social sciences need to construct new concepts to understand the world dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Modernization and relational reflexivity
International Review of Sociology, 2011This paper deals with the issue of reflexivity in the different spheres of society, affected by the processes of globalization. The author argues that each sub-system of society is more or less differentiating itself according to a (prevailing) code or register of reflexivity.
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Reflexivity and the Project of Modernity
2018The idea that our knowledge of the world must incorporate an awareness of the impact of our presence in it has been central to the modern project, suggesting a reflexive dimension to such knowledge. The limits of this, and the paradoxes engendered by ignoring them, are sources of the distortions and rationalizations that result in practice, whether for
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Reflexive Modernization Temporalized
Theory, Culture & Society, 2003This article considers the relevance of time theory for Beck's theory of reflexive modernization and vice versa. It focuses in particular on discontinuity in the context of continuity, on decontextualization, naturalization and responsibility as key concerns of both perspectives on the industrial way of life.
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