Inspired by Michel Foucault's _The Order of Things_, this book tells a
story about epochal change in the modern world. Like Foucault,
Nicholas Onuf is concerned with how we moderns think about ourselves
and our world, but in this book he emphasizes the conceptual links in
the ways we think, talk, get things done, conduct ourselves, and run
societies, from age to age. As with his previous work, Onuf emphasizes
the "rules for rule" that have solidified over time through repeated
behaviors that work themselves out into a system of social uniformity
and hierarchy. Rules set out who is a member of society, establish
goals, provide opportunities to act, and dictate who sits on top -- in
other words, what any political society looks like in a particular
time and place. This book looks at the political society that has
evolved since the Renaissance, or what might be called "the modern
world," in order to consider what is yet to come. Onuf argues that
modernity, although consisting of a succession of epochs or ages
separated by great ruptures, has continued to change within the
confines of a "mightie frame" (a turn of phrase he borrows from John
Milton). Epoch by epoch, this frame has linked the limits of our
knowledge, à la Michel Foucault, to conditions of rule, and it points
to a plausible ethics for what comes next. But unlike Foucault, Onuf
argues that modernism marked an end to societal and political
transitions, and that we have entered a period during which
established conditions of rule are likely to be reinforced -- and the
mighty frame will grow ever mightier.
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ISBN
9780190879822
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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