Salvaging Modernity: A Social Contract for the Age of Permacrisis /

Salvaging Modernity: A Social Contract for the Age of Permacrisis /

Modernity is stuck on an unsustainable course, which poses a challenge to both critical theory and praxis. My book develops a comprehensive diagnosis of the times by reviewing the rapidly growing field of critical theories that focus on structural paradoxes and social suffering. To address the compl...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sik, Domonkos (مؤلف)

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

سلاسل: Social and Critical Theory ; 33.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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History.
Social Sciences.

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جدول المحتويات:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Critical Theory for the Age of Permacrisis
  • 1 The Contemporary Challenge of Social Criticism
  • 2 Social Contract as a Critical Praxis
  • 3 The Principles of a Social Contract in the Age of Permacrisis
  • 4 In Search of the Missing Contractors
  • 5 Towards a Social Contract for the Age of Permacrisis
  • 1 From the Crises of Modernization to the Renewal of Social Contracts - the Dialectics of Freedom Taming
  • 1 From System Paradoxes to Global Crises
  • 1.1 From Market Bubbles to Financial Crisis: Global Capitalism out of Control
  • 1.2 From Political Polarization to Solidarity Crisis: the Cost of the Moral Panic over Migration
  • 1.3 From Exploiting Nature to Pandemic: the Structural Components of COVID-19
  • 2 Taming Universal Freedom: Social Contracts in Early and Classic Modernity
  • 2.1 Hobbes: Constraining Individual Freedom
  • 2.2 Rawls: Constraining Market Freedom
  • 3 The Normative Basis of a Social Contract in the Age of Permacrisis: from Universal Justice to the Morality of the Face and Hospitability
  • 3.1 The Limitations of Universalistic Freedom
  • 3.2 The Particularistic 'Impossible Moralities'
  • 3.3 The 'Trial of Particularity' as Principle and Praxis
  • 4 The Missing Contractors and the Critical Praxes of Grounding Moral Commitment
  • Reconfiguring Paradox Intersubjectivities: from Mimetic Crisis to the Supplements of Solidarity
  • 2 Mimetic Crisis Unleashed - (Mis)Managing Violence in Late Modernity
  • 1 Sociability from Controlling Mimetic Violence
  • 1.1 Mimetic Desire and Violence
  • 1.2 Managing Contagious Violence through Sacrifice
  • 2 A Fragile Balance: the Classic Modern Paradigm of Controlling Mimetic Desire and Violence
  • 2.1 The Reconfiguring Space of Mimesis
  • 2.2 Mimetic Desire Unleashed
  • 3 A Balance Turmoiled: the Late Modern Paradigm of Controlling Mimetic Desire and Violence
  • 3.1 The Coalition of Capitalism-Fueled Desire and Biopolitical Surveillance
  • 3.2 The Unsustainable Paradigm of Mimetic Violence
  • 4 Naturalized Cruelty and Alternative Sacrificial Rites
  • 3 From Constrained Subjectivities to Paradox Intersubjectivities - Impossible Solidarity and Its Substitutes
  • 1 The Transforming Space of Social Suffering and Solidarity
  • 2 The Dimensions of Late Modern Social Suffering
  • 2.1 The Distortions of Late Modern Capitalism
  • 2.2 The Individual Consequences of System Expansion
  • 3 Internalizing Paradoxes: the Ideal-Types of Constrained Subjectivity
  • 3.1 Unharmed Subjectivity
  • 3.2 Unscrupulous Mobile Subjectivities
  • 3.3 Uncertain Experimenting Subjectivities
  • 3.4 Desperately Struggling Subjectivities
  • 3.5 Broken Subjectivity
  • 4 Impossible Solidarity: the Reduced Interactive Space of Constrained Subjectivities
  • 5 The Substitutes of Solidarity - Emancipatory Intersubjectivities and the Trial of Particularity
  • Reconfiguring Paradox Inter-Objectivities: from Rigid Flesh to Hacking Back Ethics into Technology
  • 4 Rigid Flesh - System Integration and Technologically Mediated Chiasm
  • 1 Existence and the Plasticity of Chiasm
  • 1.1 From Consciousness to Flesh
  • 1.2 Inhabiting Chiasm: Enjoyment, Instrumentality and the Ethical
  • 1.3 The Impossibility of Possibility: Death and Transcendental Meanings
  • 2 From Chiasm to Structural Coupling
  • 2.1 From Phenomenology to Autopoietic Systems
  • 2.2 The Modernization Dynamics of Meaning Systems
  • 2.3 Chiasm as System Coupling
  • 3 The Critiques of Technology
  • 4 From the Critique of Technology to the Trials of Particularity
  • 5 Empty Satisfaction - Beyond Technologically Mediated Enjoyment
  • 1 A Social Phenomenology of Embodied Enjoyment
  • 1.1 The Visceral Level of Satisfaction
  • 1.2 The Existential and Ontological Narratives of Enjoyment
  • 1.3 Sharing and Intersubjectivity: the Ethical Aspects of Enjoyment
  • 1.4 The Reduction of Enjoyment: from the Exclusivity of Visceral Satisfaction to Addiction
  • 2 The Structural Components of Late Modern Enjoyment
  • 2.1 Reified Control over the Visceral
  • 2.2 The Existential Consequences of Social Disintegration
  • 2.3 The Lost Horizon of the Ethical: Inequalities of Joy and the Overburdening of Intimacy
  • 3 Hacking the Reified Actor-Networks of Satisfaction
  • Reconfiguring Paradox Discourses: from Cynical Justifications to the Reclaiming of Mutual Understanding
  • 6 Justifying the Paradoxes of Modernity - the Emergence of Contemporary Cynical Discourses
  • 1 Traditional, Classic and Late Modern Economies of Worth
  • 1.1 Modernization and the Dialectics of Justification
  • 1.2 Premodern, Classic and Late Modern Cités
  • 2 The Late Modern Emptying of Critique
  • 2.1 Modernization and the Emptying of Critique
  • 2.2 From Emptied Critique to the Birth of Contemporary Cynicism
  • 3 The Cynical Modalities of Justification
  • 4 Overcoming Cynical Justifications
  • 7 Reclaiming Communicative Action - Mutual Understanding in the Age of Technologically Mediated System Communication
  • 1 Mutual Understanding via Speech Acts: the Latent Preconditions of Communicative Action
  • 1.1 Action Coordination through Communication
  • 1.2 Strategic and Dogmatic Distortions of Communicative Action
  • 1.3 Moral Development and Communicative Action
  • 2 The Late Modern Limitations of Mutual Understanding
  • 2.1 The Triumph of Late Modern Digital Populism
  • 2.2 The Expansion of Moral-Free Zones of Action
  • 2.3 The Twilight of Traditions
  • 2.4 Communication Trapped in Preconventional Morality
  • 3 Overcoming the Obstacles of Mutual Understanding
  • 3.1 Proximity vs. System Integration
  • 3.2 Bricolage vs. Technological Reification
  • 4 Reclaiming Communicative Action: the Triangle of Proximity, Bricolage and Justification
  • Concluding Remarks - from the Networks of Salvaging to a Social Contract for the Age of Permacrisis
  • Bibliography
  • Index.