The badlands of modernity : heterotopia and social ordering /

• Main Author: Hetherington, Kevin
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
• Series: International library of sociology.
• Subjects: Utopias.; Dystopias.; Space (Architecture); Spatial behavior.; Human territoriality.; Human geography.; Social psychology.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.; Moderniteit.; Sociale orde.; Ruimte (algemeen); Bouwkunst.; Utopie�en.; Electronic books.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century.

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Palais Royal as modernity; Margins, orderings and the laboratories of society; Two castles Heterotopia as sites of alternate ordering; The utopics of modernity; Secret virtues, Euclidean spaces Freemasonry, Solomon's Temple and the lodge; The factory for itself; The space of the horizon; Notes; Bibliography; Index.