Roger A. Salerno

Beyond the Enlightenment

Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780275977252
• ISBN-10: 0275977250
• Artikelnr.: 21854118

Autorenporträt

Roger A. Salerno is a professor of sociology at Pace University in New York and a practicing psychoanalyst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Enlightenment and Beyond Georg Hegel: Foundations of
Modern Social Thought Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European
Sociology Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest Harriet Marineau:
Feminist Sociologist Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation Emile
Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will
to Power Georg Simmel: Sociologists as Outsider W.E.B. Du Bois: The Double
Consciousness of Race Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
Adorno and Horkheimer: The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory Herbert
Marcuse: Eros and Civilization Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity Norbert
Elias: The Civilizing Process Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness Hannah Arendt:
Banality of Reason Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology Frantz
Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel
Foucault: Structuralism and Beyond: Poststructuralism Talcott Parsons: The
Systems Society Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self Nancy Chodorow,
Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks: Feminist Social Theory Jean Baudrillard,
Donna Haraway, Zygmunt Bauman: Postmodernism Jurgen Habermas: Communicative
Action Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory