A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values.

Autorentext

Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen is Tenured Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also coordinates the Seminar for Advanced Research in Body Studies (ESCUE). Researcher level II of the National System of Researchers (CONACYT, Mexico) and the author of The Distant Proximal (2009).

Josetxo Beriain is Professor of Sociology, I-Communitas-Institute for Advanced Social Research, Public University of Navarra (UPNA) (Spain) and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University (USA). The author of Clashing Modernities (2005) and The Transgressing (and Transgressed) Subject: Modernity, Religion, Utopia and Terror (2011).

Inhalt

1. Culture Wars in Comparative Perspective: Four patterns

2. Classificatory struggles and cognitive hegemonization

3. Epistemological clashes within the COVID crisis

4. Warrior gods, heroes and victims

5. "Europe" as a symbolic battlefield

6. The dynamic tension between the prefixes of the human: transhuman, posthuman and superhuman

7. Social acceleration and time wars out of the future