Bjørn Thomassen

Liminality and the Modern

Living Through the In-Between

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept, discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of 'non-spaces', the analysis of major historical periods and the study of political revolution, the book also explores its possible uses in social science research and its implications for our understanding of the uncertainty and contingency of the liquid structures of modern society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781138610941
• ISBN-10: 1138610941
• Artikelnr.: 53169609

Autorenporträt

Bjørn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Into Liminality
Part 1 Retrieving Liminality Within the History of Social Thought: From Arnold van Gennep to Victor Turner and Beyond
Chapter 1 Arnold van Gennep
Chapter 2 Arnold van Gennep and his Contemporaries
Chapter 3 Liminality Rediscovered
Chapter 4 Dimensions of Liminality
Part 2 On the Liminal Conditions of the Times in Which We Live
Chapter 5 Liminality in the Transition to Modernity
Chapter 6 Game and Gambling and the Implosion of Liminality
Chapter 7 From Liminal to Liminoid to Limivoid
Chapter 8 Liminal Politics
Chapter 9 By Way of Conclusion