Late Modernity in Crisis Why We Need a Theory of Society

"For those of us who think that the big picture matters and not just information, empirical data, and small narratives, this book is good news. Two prominent sociologists, each in their own way and both with rigor and erudition, take up the question on the minds of many: What sort of society are we really living in? In what direction are our societies headed? A major contribution to the revitalization of interest in a comprehensive theory of modernity."
--Miroslav Volf, Yale University
 
"... an admirable attempt to raise the kind of Big Ideas that the founding figures of sociology - Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Simmel, and others - thought were important if we were to understand society as a whole. It might be just what we need at this fraught period in our journey together as a global society."
--The Englewood Review of Books