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  1. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.Charles Taylor - 1989 - Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press.
    'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaigne, Luther, and many others. This then serves as a starting point for a renewed understanding of modernity. Taylor argues that modern (...)
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  • The Consequences of Modernity.Anthony Giddens - 1990
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  • A zone of engagement.Perry Anderson - 1992 - New York: Verso.
    The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the philosophers of liberalism, Norberto Bobbio and Isaiah Berlin; the sociologists of power, Michael Mann and W.G. Runciman; the exponents of national identity, Andreas Hillgruber and Fernand Braudel; the (...)
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  • Le futurisme: création et avant-garde.Giovanni Lista - 2001
    Ce livre est un ouvrage complet sur le mouvement futuriste qui fut la première avant-garde du XXe siècle, un siècle qui aujourd'hui apparaît précisément sur le plan historique comme " le siècle des avant-gardes ". Le livre explique le rôle fondateur joué par le futurisme dans cette culture de la modernité qui, au nom de l'esprit d'avant-garde, a voulu faire de l'art un instrument de révolution sociale. Il démontre comment le futurisme s'est constitué en un " mouvement " dont les (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne.Jürgen Habermas - 1986 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 91 (4):561-562.
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  • Multiple Modernities.Shmuel N. Eisenstadt - 2007 - ProtoSociology 24:20-56.
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  • (2 other versions)Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne.Jürgen Habermas - 1987 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 41 (4):682-685.
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  • In quest of identity.Martin S. Stabb - 1967 - Chapel Hill,: University of North Carolina Press.
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