Modernist radicalism, postmodernization and orderings: the work of Stephen Cook

Abstract

The article is a survey of the opus of the late Stephen Crook. The work is analysed in three phases: meta-theoretical treatments of foundationalism and mundaneity; substantive theoretical analyses of postmodernization, especially in the areas of culture, science and the environment; and principles along which everyday life is ordered under conditions of structural complexity, uncertainty and radical change. Crook's work is found to have the potential to offer superior analytic capacity relative to other arguments.