Bücher von Keith Tester

This text offers an interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships. The author argues that we all try to make sense of our humanity by turning elsewhere: to inhuman things. It also encompasses sociological thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.

This critical review of "postmodernity" argues that we are not living in the midst of a new "great transformation". Rather, the problems and possibilities of contemporary culture reflect the paradoxes and dreams of modernity.

Keith Tester examines modernity through the prism of the two sovereigns - of the individual and the collectivity. It is a stimulating meditation on the difficult and contradictory experiences of European modernity.

This book argues that study of the media can only be culturally valuable and morally worthwhile if the lessons taught by sociology are remembered.