Renewed modernity

Book name: Renewed Modernity Author: Alain Touraine Publisher: Sakak Book category: Self-development Number of pages: 288 About the book: The author addresses theories that reduce modern societies to mere economic, cultural, or consumerist societies, and rejects any inevitability that restricts human behavior by fixed laws, including cultural laws. The book is an attempt to clarify what constitutes the characteristic of modernity, that is, human creativity or history. What distinguishes our contemporary society is awareness of this trait, which has resulted in a modernity he calls "super modernity" that is aware of its creative and historical condition, in addition to the destruction and mass genocides and ethnic conflicts it has caused. This "full and direct awareness" is what characterizes super modern societies. Alain Touraine invites us to restart from the idea of modernity to think about our era against a fierce economic system that threatens to dismantle social sciences. He reconstructs a vision of that human capable of changing his social environment and even his human condition through the practice and experience of will. "One of my most important books ever" Alain Touraine, a French sociologist with worldwide fame. Over half a century of his career, he published about forty works. Published by Sakak: "What is Democracy?".