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Critique of Modernity
AuthorAlain Touraine
Original titleCritique de la modernité
TranslatorDavid Macey
LanguageFrench
SubjectModernity
PublisherFayard
Publication date
23 September 1992
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1995
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages462 (first edition)

Critique of Modernity (French: Critique de la modernité) is a 1992 book by the French sociologist Alain Touraine. It attempts to offer a critique of modernity which is neither antimodern nor postmodern, but proposes a rebuilt modernity based on the subject's liberation.

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