Stjepan Mestrovic

Anthony Giddens

The Last Modernist

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens but rather the ominous potential for new forms of totalitarian control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415095723
• ISBN-10: 0415095727
• Artikelnr.: 21181741

Autorenporträt

Dr Stjepan Mestrovic (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist 3. The New Versus
the Old Rules of Sociological Method 4. The Role of Desire in Agency and
Structure 5. Gidden's Political Sociology 6. Gidden's Modernism Lite 7.
Unlimited Agency as the New Anomie 8. Conclusions