Articulating the World: Social Movements, the Self-Transcendence of Society and the Question of Culture
Thesis Eleven May 1, 2000 Martin Fuchs
Recent developments in social theory, and especially in movement research, have deepened our understanding of the self-instituting and self-transformative capabilities of society. However, as the case of Alain Touraine's notion of historicity shows, there is a real danger that social praxis is being reduced to the function of self-thematization and self-programming, enshrining society in a...