The Lonelinesses of Modernity: A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation

By Denis Newiak

Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658401435
• ISBN13: 9783658401436
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"