Thomas Wagner: Abenteuer der Moderne
Reviewed by Peter Flick, 2025-05-22
Translated from German version by DeepL
Thomas Wagner: Abenteuer der Moderne. Die großen Jahre der Soziologie 1949-1969. Klett-Cotta Verlag (Stuttgart) 2025. 329 pages. ISBN 978-3-608-98705-8. D: 28,00 EUR, A: 28,80 EUR.
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Summary
A narratively constructed historiography has its pitfalls. The central question of whether the pessimistic view of a darkly doomed future of Western modernity, which Adorno and Gehlen share, does not originate from completely different normative sources and therefore leads to completely different political conclusions, is not explored in the book. The "Epilogue", which concentrates on Gehlen and does not make a clear distinction between Gehlen's cultural-anthroplogical insights, which are still worth reading today, and his critique of intellectuals based on anti-modern affects, which is only of interest for a social psychology of resentment,
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Peter Flick
Lehrer, unterrichtet die Fächer Sozialwissenschaften, Praktische Philosophie und Deutsch
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