Beyond the Enlightenment : Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists
Roger A. Salerno
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (256 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction; 1 The Enlightenment and Beyond; 2 Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought; 3 Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology; 4 Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest; 5 Harriet Martineau: Feminist Sociologist; 6 Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation; 7 Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community; 8 Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy; 9 Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization; 10 Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power; 11 Georg Simmel: Sociologist as Outsider; 12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Double Consciousness and Race. - 13 Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism14 The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer and Adorno; 15 Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Liberation; 16 Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity; 17 Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process; 18 Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness; 19 Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason; 20 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology; 21 Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism; 22 Structuralism and Beyond: Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault; 23 Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society; 24 Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self; 25 Feminist Social Theory: Chodorow, Butler, and hooks. - 26 Postmodernism: Baudrillard, Haraway, and Bauman27 Jürgen Habermas: Communicative Action; 28 Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus; 29 Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory; Bibliography; Index. - Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought-ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world-are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.||A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful too
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| ISBN | 0275977242. - 0275977250
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