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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820266503321

Autore

Hetherington Kevin

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-134-82246-4

1-134-82247-2

1-280-21814-2

0-203-42887-0

0-203-29577-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.