The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

by Andreas Reckwitz

Book Overview

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late 20th century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades we've been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity might be on a progressive path to a better future seems like a grand illusion.

And yet it is only now, as disillusioned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509545700
• ISBN13: 9781509545704
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"