We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, indivi

This is a brief, authoritative and accessible introduction to the idea of modernity, written by a leading social theorist. Wagner shows that modernity was based

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it e

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He ide

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and a