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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455180603321

Autore

Hetherington Kevin

Titolo

The badlands of modernity : heterotopia and social ordering / / Kevin Hetherington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-82247-2

1-280-21814-2

0-203-42887-0

0-203-29577-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Utopias

Dystopias

Space (Architecture)

Spatial behavior

Human territoriality

Human geography

Social psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Palais Royal as modernity; Margins, orderings and the laboratories of society; Two castles Heterotopia as sites of alternate ordering; The utopics of modernity; Secret virtues, Euclidean spaces Freemasonry, Solomon's Temple and the lodge; The factory for itself; The space of the horizon; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.