Harvie Ferguson was Professor of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

at the

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until his retirement in 2011. He has written extensively on the development of cultural, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the development of western

modernity Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the "Age of Reas ...

. He has published research on war experience in both a modern

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an and

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perspective.See, e.g. Harvie Ferguson (2004) 'The Sublime and the Subliminal: Modern Identities and the Aesthetics of Combat,' in ''Theory, Culture and Society'', Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 1-33. His most recent book in English is ''Self-Identity and Everyday Life'' (2009)

Selected works

* Ferguson, H. (2010), ''La pasión agotada. Estilos de la vida contemporánea''. Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores, * Ferguson, H. (2006), ''Phenomenological Sociology. Insight and Experience in Modern Society''. London, Sage. * Ferguson, H. (2000), ''Modernity and Subjectivity. Body, Soul, Spirit''. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press * Ferguson, H. (1996), ''The Lure of Dreams. Sigmund Freud and the Construction of Modernity''. London, Routledge * Ferguson, H. (1994), ''Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity. Søren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology''. London, Routledge * Ferguson, H. (1992), ''Religious Transformation in Western Society. The End of Happiness''. London, Routledge * Ferguson, H. (1990), ''The Science of Pleasure. Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World View''. London, Routledge

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