A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here ...

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues that ...

The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging ...

Gerard Delanty offers a critical interpretation of the European heritage today in light of recent developments in the human and social sciences, and in ...

This book analyzes the origins and development of the idea of Europe as a social construction from the earliest times to the present. It will have widespread ...