Hampermas will note - and he is right - that it is certain that even in the 12th century people would have felt modern - people of their time, just like in the 21st century. Therefore, the issue is not how one feels or thinks about oneself, but rather how external judges perceive it. It is the thoughts of such external judges that this volume deals with. The participating authors in their texts examine, analyze, and discuss either the work of specific prominent thinkers-external judges of modernity, such as A. Toqueville, K. Marx, E. Durkheim, M. Weber, G. Simmel, S. Freud, T. Parsons, H. Marcuse, J. Habermas, Z. Bauman, A. Giddens, P. Bourdieu, C. Polanyi, D. Riesman, F. Jameson, J. Lipovetsky, or schools of thought or reflection with common thematic interests, such as the Chicago School and the Frankfurt School. They also deal with both the search for historicity and tradition in the thought of M. Heidegger and H.-G. Gadamer, or the exploration of the modern city, as well as the determination of the position of civil society and the status of the citizen in early and late modernity. By presenting the work of specific thinkers and schools, the participating authors aim to demonstrate how they approach, study, respond to, and ultimately stand against what is called modernity. Through these perspectives, our goal is to understand what modernity consists of and thus to perceive how our own world is different from what has come before, but also how it shapes us and what the limits of our own interventions can be. Included texts: - Socrates M. Konioros: "Novelty and Modern Social Thought"
- Stavros Konstantakopoulos: "Individualism and Novelty"
- Vasilis Romanos: "Marxist Critique of Novelty and the Problem of the Rationality of History"
- Spyros Gangas: "Emil Durkheim and the Formation of Ethics in Modernity"
- Thanasis Giouras: "Max Weber and Novelty"
- Spyros Gangas: "Novelty, Culture, and Money in the Thought of Georg Simmel"
- Thanos Lipovats: "Psychoanalysis and Novelty"
- Kostas Gounis: "City and Novelty: The Social Research Tradition of the Chicago School"
- Lila Leontidou: "Modern City, Urban Planning, and Urbanism in the Reflection of Gramsci and Benjamin: Contrasts with the Chicago School and the Utopias of Le Corbusier"
- Angelos Mouzakitis: "Systems Theory and Society: The Case of Talcott Parsons"
- Vicky Iakovou: "Critical Theory and Novelty"
- Nikos Fotopoulos: "From the One-Dimensional Man to the Colonization of the Biosphere: Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas Confronting Novelty"
- Nikos Demertzis, Kostas Perezous: "Zygmunt Bauman and the Ambivalent Novelty"
- Heraklis Mavridis: "Reflectivity, Risk, Identity: On the Sociology of Anthony Giddens' Novelty"
- Kanakis Leledakis: "Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Society and Novelty"
- Manos Spyridakis: "Market Economy, Economic Anthropology, and Social Policy: Karl Polanyi's Contribution to the Critique of the Economic Formation of Novelty"
- Alexandros Afouxenidis: "Postmodern Culture: A Discussion with Reference to the Work of Jameson"
- Angelos Mouzakitis: "Historicity and Tradition in Modern Hermeneutic Reflection"
- Nikos Mouzelis: "Civil Society and the Citizen's Identity in Early and Late Modernity"