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Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.

The loneliness of modernity: A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation

1. On the concept of modernity.- 2. Communities of the pre-modern era.- 3. The onset of modernization.- 4. Disorientation and abandonment: the lonelinesses of the early modern era.- 5. Lonely time diagnoses of the industrial high modern era.- 6. The lonelinesses of the late modern era.- 7. Life in the network society and the escalation of late modern lonelinesses.- 8. Has the post-modern era already begun?