The Lonelinesses of Modernity

Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies.

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 the late modern lonelinesses.- 8. has the post-modern era already begun?.