Summary Of "The Myth Of Modernity: Reason And Social Actor" By Berta Horen: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

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THE CHANGES THAT MODERNITY BROUGHT

This work intends to reflect on the political, social and technological changes that occurred at the end of the 18th century and the repercussions they had. For this reason, the DOUBLE REVOLUTION (Industrial Revolution 1750-1830, French Revolution 1789) will be analyzed.

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE IN ENGLAND AND WAS FUNDAMENTALLY OF AN ECONOMIC NATURE: IT REVOLUTIONIZED THE ENTIRE PRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE DESTROYING EVEN THE LAST ECONOMIC VESTIGES OF FEUDALISM

INSTEAD THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS A POLITICAL REVOLUTION THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN THE MOST POPULATED AND POWERFUL COUNTRY IN EUROPE AT THAT TIM

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Jan 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201165222

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of The Myth Of Modernity: Reason And Social Actor By Berta Horen

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2022.

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SUMMARY OF THE MYTH OF MODERNITY: REASON AND SOCIAL ACTOR BY BERTA HOREN

First edition. January 17, 2022.

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THE CHANGES THAT MODERNITY BROUGHT

This work intends to reflect on the political, social and technological changes that occurred at the end of the 18th century and the repercussions they had. For this reason, the DOUBLE REVOLUTION (Industrial Revolution 1750-1830, French Revolution 1789) will be analyzed.

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE IN ENGLAND AND WAS FUNDAMENTALLY OF AN ECONOMIC NATURE: IT REVOLUTIONIZED THE ENTIRE PRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE DESTROYING EVEN THE LAST ECONOMIC VESTIGES OF FEUDALISM

INSTEAD THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS A POLITICAL REVOLUTION THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN THE MOST POPULATED AND POWERFUL COUNTRY IN EUROPE AT THAT TIME

At this time it was held that reason was the basis for the liberation of the human being, and although at first it seemed that way, over time the oppressive consequences and the justification of domination from this idea could be observed more clearly. That is why today the idea of ​​rationality has lost strength due to its loss of liberating and creative capacity. This article intends to reconsider a relationship between subjectivity and rationality through a new category of citizen: that of social actor.

The two revolutions and social thought

To people who lived through this time, the two revolutions seemed like historical cataclysms of an incredible dimension, phenomena that had never occurred before in the past. The changes accelerated so much that the past seemed destroyed forever. One of the manifestations of these changes is the fact that new words appeared that today may be everyday but that did not exist before: industry, industrialist, democracy, class, middle class, ideology, intellectual, rationalism, humanitarian, atomistic, mass, commercialism, proletariat, collectivism, egalitarian, liberal, conservative, scientific, utilitarian, bureaucracy, capitalism, crisis

AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE TWO REVOLUTIONS THE WORLD BECAME GRADUALLY DOMINATED BY A FEW WESTERN REGIMES, ESPECIALLY GREAT BRITAIN

Between 1789 and 1848 capitalist industry, liberal bourgeois society and the economies of Northwest Europe triumphed. Although since 1848 Europe was threatened by communism in a large number of countries, this threat to the bourgeoisie was defeated.

The industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution cannot be understood merely as a product of great technological development, since there were other factors without which it would not have been possible that are of a social nature.

The English state was committed to creating the economic conditions for the development of capitalism. That is why Parliament approved between 1760 and 1830 the enclosure laws that allowed the large landowners to seize most of the communal and peasant