LEADER 02438nam 22004213a 450 001 9910831828803321 005 20250203232649.0 010 $a9781000382723 010 $a1000382729 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146698 035 $a(CKB)4950000000290211 035 $a(BIP)078413407 035 $a(ScCtBLL)473d2238-840d-496d-9e90-26cf6a100f39 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000290211 100 $a20250203i20212021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aTranscending Modernity with Relational Thinking$fPierpaolo Donati 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cRoutledge,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) $cill 225 1 $aRoutledge Advances in Sociology 330 $aThis book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a "third" in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society - one that calls into question the guiding ideas of Western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists, and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism, and social transformation. 410 $aRoutledge Advances in Sociology 606 $aSocial Science / Sociology$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Sociology 615 0$aSocial sciences. 676 $a302 700 $aDonati$b Pierpaolo$039910 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831828803321 996 $aTranscending Modernity with Relational Thinking$92995962 997 $aUNINA