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Singularity: A New Key for the Sociological Diagnosis of the Present Time? - Andreas Reckwitz, Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne (Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017)

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Andreas Reckwitz, Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne (Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2019

Peter Wagner*
Affiliation:
Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), University of Barcelona, and Ural Federal University [peter.wagner@ub.edu]
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References

1 Jean-François Lyotard, 1979, La Condition postmoderne (Paris, Minuit).

2 Ulrich Beck, 1986, Risikogesellschaft (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp).

3 Alain Touraine, 1992, Critique de la modernité (Paris, Fayard).

4 Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, 1999, Le Nouvel esprit du capitalism (Paris, Gallimard).

5 See Luc Boltanski, 2018, “Historical sociology and sociology of history”, Social Imaginaries, vol. 4(1).

6 Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre, 2017, Enrichissement (Paris, Gallimard).

7 See recently Stephan Lessenich, 2016, Neben uns die Sintflut. Die Externalisierungsgesellschaft un d ihr Preis (Berlin, Hanser); with more focus on selected Southern and Northern societies: Aurea Mota and Peter Wagner, 2019, Collective action and political transformation. The entangled experiences of Brazil, South Africa and Europe (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press).

8 See recently Luc Boltanski, 2009, De la critique (Paris, Gallimard); for my own view Peter Wagner, 2016, “World-sociology: an outline”, Social Imaginaries, vol. 2(2).

9 For my own recent proposal, see Peter Wagner, 2015, “Interpreting the present: a research programme”, Social Imaginaries, vol. 1(1).