The Lonelinesses of Modernity: A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation

Preface to The Lonelinesses of Modernity and Loneliness in Series
Introduction
	Questions, Theses, Explanation of Terms
	Methodical Approach
	Theoretical Preliminary Considerations: What Does Modernity Mean?
Contents
1: The Communities of the Pre-modern Era
	1.1	 Anthropology of the Social
	1.2	 Brief Genealogy of Pre-modern Communitarization
	1.3	 Communicative and Symbolic Constructions of Pre-modern Community
	1.4	 Institutionalized Religion as a Pre-modern Mode of Communalization
2: The Onset of Modernization
	2.1	 Crisis of the Pre-modern Symbolic Universe
	2.2	 Age Without God: Nietzsche’s Solitary Nihilism
	2.3	 Nietzsche’s Lonely Prophecies of Modernity
3: Disorientation and Abandonment: Early Modernity
	3.1	 Community in Crisis: The Sociologies of Early Modernity
	3.2	 Modernization and Discourses of Alienation
	3.3	 Tradition, Law, Ideology: Ways Out of Early Modern Loneliness?
4: Lonely Time Diagnoses of the Industrial High Modernity
	4.1	 The Discovery of High Modern Lonelinesses: Riesman and Oberndörfer
	4.2	 Disoriented America: Steinbeck and Mak
	4.3	 The (Sub-)Urban (In)visible Lonelinesses: Sennett and Slater
	4.4	 Psychologies of Loneliness
5: The Lonelinesses of Late Modernity
	5.1	 Acceleration and Movement: Rosa and Augé
	5.2	 Crisis of Certainties: Hobsbawm and Bauman
	5.3	 Danger and Risk: Luhmann, Beck and Bonß
	5.4	 Identities and Singularities: Niethammer, Giddens and Reckwitz
	5.5	 The Burden of Modernity and the Lonelinesses of the Losers of Modernization
6: Life in the Network Society and the Escalation of Late-Modern Lonelinesses
	6.1	 The Promises and Disappointments of the Interconnected Society
	6.2	 The Isolating Logics of the Digital
	6.3	 The Generation of the Lonely
	6.4	 Being Alone and Living Alone as a Time-out from Loneliness
7: Has Postmodernity Already Begun?
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