@ARTICLE{27043461_28122294_2008, author = {Alexander Filippov}, keywords = {, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, politics, war, Simmel, Tönnies, charisma, disenchantmentaffectivity}, title = {Clear awareness, anxiety and reflexivity: towards a sociological description of Modernity}, journal = {The Russian Sociological Review}, year = {2008}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {96-116}, url = {https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2008-7-1/28122294.html}, publisher = {}, abstract = {The paper is a historical and theoretical reconstruction of attempts made in classical European sociology to grasp the most significant traits of Modernity. The author concludes with a draft of political anthropology that might be common to classics. This would be a combination of clear self-awareness, rationality, affectivity, willingness to trust political leaders and to prefer war, not peace.}, annote = {The paper is a historical and theoretical reconstruction of attempts made in classical European sociology to grasp the most significant traits of Modernity. The author concludes with a draft of political anthropology that might be common to classics. This would be a combination of clear self-awareness, rationality, affectivity, willingness to trust political leaders and to prefer war, not peace.} }