Alexander Jeffrey C. (University Of California Los Angeles) - Civil Repair - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked and impoverished social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations from the creation of hopeful democracies in the face of dangerous dictatorships to feminist transformations of patriarchy struggles against imperialism and racial domination and the stubborn but persistent reconstruction of pivotal institutions. Jeffrey Alexander theorizes these radical reforms as "civil repairs" as efforts to make real the utopian promises of the civil sphere. Ideal civil spheres make stirring commitments to social solidarity equality and individual autonomy. Real civil spheres are rent by anti - civil hierarchies of class gender race and religion. Contradictions between real and ideal civil spheres generate social movements for justice which are not only about challenging power but making new and more solidarizing meanings. Civil repair is at once symbolic and institutional. It offers a new way to conceptualize progressive social change.
Title: Civil Repair
Author(s): Alexander Jeffrey C. (University Of California Los Angeles)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509506453
Pages: 218 Pages
Publication Date: 1/13/2025
Category: Sociology & Anthropology