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Download or read book Ways of Life in the Late Modernity written by Helena Kubátová and published by Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this monograph is to show the contexts in which ways of life are conducted in late modernity, the dimensions of life in late modernity we can identify and how we can descibe and understand them. The fundamental starting point of the monograph is the thesis that late modernity is characterized, amongst other factors, by large number of life forms and ways of life. The monograph is introduced with a chapter entitled Ways of Life in Late Modernity, in which the author attempts to define the concepts of way of life, lifestyle and life architecture, to outline different theoretical approaches to understanding way of life, and to define some characteristics of late modern ways of life. The monograph is further divided into three parts.