Franco Ferrarotti is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Doctoral Program in Sociology at the University of Rome, as well as Editor ofLa Critica Sociologica.E. Doyle McCarthy, the editor of this collection, is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, New York.

Searching, independent, critical and passionate, Franco Ferrarotti writes with the keenest theoretical eye and with profound historical understanding. The remarkably wide-ranging studies collected here display the sociological imagination at its brightest. As a singular whole, this collection offers a veritable education in social theory and the logic of social inquiry.

• Part 1 Old and New ModernitiesChapter 2 The Modern World and its DestinyChapter 3 Counter-Cultures and PostmodernismChapter 4 Beyond the Authoritarian PersonalityChapter 5 Civil Society and State Structures in Creative TensionChapter 6 The City and Civil SocietyChapter 7 New Approaches to Social Movements in Western EuropeChapter 8 The Culture of ViolenceChapter 9 Social Marginality and Violence in Neo-Urban SocietiesPart 10 Social Theories and MethodologiesChapter 11 Modern Rationality and the Paradox of the SacredChapter 12 History and SociologyChapter 13 The Lessons of PositivismChapter 14 American and European Social ScienceChapter 15 Biography and the Social SciencesChapter 16 Thorstein Veblen and his CriticsChapter 17 The Social Type of the BusinessmanPart 18 Sacred and Secular ModalitiesChapter 19 Constantinian Christianity and the Future of the Catholic ChurchChapter 20 The Media PopeChapter 21 Reflections on AmericaChapter 22 Time and its Social TransformationsChapter 23 On Photography

Franco Ferrarotti is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Doctoral Program in Sociology at the University of Rome, as well as Editor ofLa Critica Sociologica.E. Doyle McCarthy, the editor of this collection, is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, New York.

Searching, independent, critical and passionate, Franco Ferrarotti writes with the keenest theoretical eye and with profound historical understanding. The remarkably wide-ranging studies collected here display the sociological imagination at its brightest. As a singular whole, this collection offers a veritable education in social theory and the logic of social inquiry.

• Part 1 Old and New ModernitiesChapter 2 The Modern World and its DestinyChapter 3 Counter-Cultures and PostmodernismChapter 4 Beyond the Authoritarian PersonalityChapter 5 Civil Society and State Structures in Creative TensionChapter 6 The City and Civil SocietyChapter 7 New Approaches to Social Movements in Western EuropeChapter 8 The Culture of ViolenceChapter 9 Social Marginality and Violence in Neo-Urban SocietiesPart 10 Social Theories and MethodologiesChapter 11 Modern Rationality and the Paradox of the SacredChapter 12 History and SociologyChapter 13 The Lessons of PositivismChapter 14 American and European Social ScienceChapter 15 Biography and the Social SciencesChapter 16 Thorstein Veblen and his CriticsChapter 17 The Social Type of the BusinessmanPart 18 Sacred and Secular ModalitiesChapter 19 Constantinian Christianity and the Future of the Catholic ChurchChapter 20 The Media PopeChapter 21 Reflections on AmericaChapter 22 Time and its Social TransformationsChapter 23 On Photography

Franco Ferrarotti is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Doctoral Program in Sociology at the University of Rome, as well as Editor ofLa Critica Sociologica.E. Doyle McCarthy, the editor of this collection, is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, New York.

Searching, independent, critical and passionate, Franco Ferrarotti writes with the keenest theoretical eye and with profound historical understanding. The remarkably wide-ranging studies collected here display the sociological imagination at its brightest. As a singular whole, this collection offers a veritable education in social theory and the logic of social inquiry.

• Part 1 Old and New ModernitiesChapter 2 The Modern World and its DestinyChapter 3 Counter-Cultures and PostmodernismChapter 4 Beyond the Authoritarian PersonalityChapter 5 Civil Society and State Structures in Creative TensionChapter 6 The City and Civil SocietyChapter 7 New Approaches to Social Movements in Western EuropeChapter 8 The Culture of ViolenceChapter 9 Social Marginality and Violence in Neo-Urban SocietiesPart 10 Social Theories and MethodologiesChapter 11 Modern Rationality and the Paradox of the SacredChapter 12 History and SociologyChapter 13 The Lessons of PositivismChapter 14 American and European Social ScienceChapter 15 Biography and the Social SciencesChapter 16 Thorstein Veblen and his CriticsChapter 17 The Social Type of the BusinessmanPart 18 Sacred and Secular ModalitiesChapter 19 Constantinian Christianity and the Future of the Catholic ChurchChapter 20 The Media PopeChapter 21 Reflections on AmericaChapter 22 Time and its Social TransformationsChapter 23 On Photography