A Hundred Years of Modernity 1889-1989: A Paradigm Story
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A Hundred Years of Modernity 1889-1989: A Paradigm Story

A Hundred Years of Modernity 1889-1989: A Paradigm Story

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Faruk Birtek (Author) Paul Gatsby Laszlo (Author)  

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This is a hundred-year analytical history of the Paradigm of the Modern. It is in part a treatise on sociological theory, telling the story of the demise of the modern as a dominant paradigm, a demise arising from its inner tensions. For that understanding a journey into the inner depths of the paradigm is called for The narrative also contains autobiographical sketches portraying the life and thought at Berkeley in the 1960s.
Faruk Birtek was born in Istanbul. He studied Economics at Cambridge and Sociology at Berkeley. He taught at the universities of Yale and Bogazici. He was a visiting faculty at Bielefeld (Germany) and Michigan (Ann Arbor). He was a senior visiting fellow at Collegium Budapest in 2012. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus at Bogazici University. Paul Gatsby Laszlo was born in Budapest. He is a senior sociologist and historian. He lives in Budapest and in the Austrian Alps.
  • Contributor: Faruk Birtek
  • Imprint: VP Vilniaus akademine leidyba
  • ISBN13: 9786099602028
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 150x210mm
  • Packaged Weight: 418
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: VP Vilniaus akademine leidyba
  • Release Date: 2020-06-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Faruk Birtek was born in Istanbul. He studied Economics at Cambridge and Sociology at Berkeley. He taught at the universities of Yale and Bogazici. He was a visiting faculty at Bielefeld (Germany) and Michigan (Ann Arbor). He was a senior visiting fellow at Collegium Budapest in 2012. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus at Bogazici University. Paul Gatsby Laszlo was born in Budapest. He is a senior sociologist and historian. He lives in Budapest and in the Austrian Alps.

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