Giddens’ Theory of Modernization

The paper aims at critically introducing the institutional and political aspects of Giddens’ theory of late modernity. First, the transformation of local and global institutions is analyzed, including the legitimacy crisis of expert knowledge, the challenges of trusting abstract systems and potentials of new global pathologies. Second, the transformation of political praxis is analyzed, including the project of utopic realism, the question of life politics, the reshaping of ideologies and the potential of generative politics capable of handling these challenges.