Andreas Reckwitz - The End of Illusions

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2 Title Page The End of Illusions Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity Andreas Reckwitz Translated by Valentine A. Pakis polity

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5 Introduction: The Disillusioned Present Progress, Dystopia, Nostalgia Disillusionment as an Opportunity From Industrial Modernity to the Society of Singularities Notes

6 1 Cultural Conflicts as a Struggle over Culture: Hyperculture and Cultural Essentialism The Culturalization of the Social Culturalization I: Hyperculture Culturalization II: Cultural Essentialism Hyperculture and Cultural Essentialism: Between Coexistence and Conflict “Doing Universality” – The Culture of the General as an Alternative? Notes

7 2 From the Leveled Middle-Class Society to the Three-Class Society: The New Middle Class, the Old Middle Class, and the Precarious Class The Global and Historical Context Underlying Conditions: Post-Industrialization, the Expansion of Education, a Shift in Values In the Paternoster Elevator of the Three-Class Society The New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization and Urban Cosmopolitanism The Old Middle Class: Sedentariness, Order, and Cultural Defensiveness The Precarious Class: Muddling Through and Losing Status The Upper Class: Distance due to Assets Cross-Sectional Characteristics: Gender, Migration, Regions, Milieus A Trend toward Political Polarization and Future Social Scenarios Notes

8 3 Beyond Industrial Society: Polarized Post-Industrialism and Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism The Rise and Fall of Industrial Fordism The Saturation Crisis The Production Crisis and Polarized Post-Industrialism Globalization, Neoliberalism, Financialization Cognitive Capitalism and Immaterial Capital Cultural Goods and Cultural Capitalism Winner-Take-All Markets: The Scalability and Attractiveness of Cognitive and Cultural Goods Extreme Capitalism: The Economization of the Social Notes

9 4 The Weariness of Self-Actualization: The Late-Modern Individual and the Paradoxes of Emotional Culture From Self-Discipline to Self-Actualization Successful Self-Actualization: An Ambitious Dual Structure The Culture of Self-Actualization as a Generator of Negative Emotions Ways Out of the Spiral of Disappointment? Notes

10 5 The Crisis of Liberalism and the Search for the New Political Paradigm: From Apertistic to Regulatory Liberalism Political Paradigms and Political Paradoxes Problems and Solutions: Between the Paradigms of Regulation and Dynamization The Rise of the Social-Corporatist Paradigm The Crisis of Overregulation The Rise of the Paradigm of Apertistic Liberalism The Threefold Crisis of Apertistic Liberalism Populism as a Symptom “Regulatory Liberalism” as the Paradigm of the Future? Challenges Facing Regulatory Liberalism Notes

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1 Chapter 1 Table 1.1 Relations between Culturalization I and Culturalization II

2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 The left–right distinction and political paradigmsTable 5.2 Political paradigms and social problems since 1945

1 Chapter 2 Figure 2.1 The social structure of West Germany in 1965.Figure 2.2 Percentage of the US population older than 25 who completed high school or colle...Figure 2.3 The three-class structure of late-modern society.Figure 2.4 Socio-cultural milieus according to the SINUS studies and their “translat...

2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 The development of employment and GDP in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950...Figure 3.2 Technological revolutions since 1770 (a graph based on the work of Carlota Perez...Figure 3.3 The percentage change in employment share by job-quality decile in OECD countrie...Figure 3.4 The development of investment in tangible and intangible capital relative to GDP...Figure 3.5 The pyramid of goods.

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Andreas Reckwitz

Translated by Valentine A. Pakis

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Originally published in German as Das Ende der Illusionen – Politik, Ökonomie und Kultur in der Spätmoderne © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2019. All rights by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin.

This English edition © Polity Press, 2021

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.

Figure 2.1 ‘Hausmodell’ from Ralf Dahrendorf: Gesellschaft und Demokratie in Deutschland © 1965 Piper Verlag GmbH, München

Figure 3.3 from Maarten Goos and Alan Manning, “Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain,” The Review of Economics and Statistics , 89:1 (February, 2007), pp. 118–33. © 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.