Assessing critical theory today, this book focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. To achieve its goal, it returns to abandoned issues in social and sociological theory.
Assessing critical theory today, this book focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. To achieve its goal, it returns to abandoned issues in social and sociological theory.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
José Maurício Domingues, PhD in sociology (LSE), professor at IESP-UERJ, Brazil, author of Global Modernity, Development, and Global Civilization (Routledge, 2012), Latin America and Contemporary Modernity (Routledge, 2018), Modernity Reconstructed (University of Wales Press, 2006), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (Macmillan/Saint Martin's Press, 2000) and Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (MacMillan/Saint Martin's Press, 1995).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Vicissitudes and Possibilities of Critical Theory Today Defining Critical Theory Contemporary Modernity Renewing Critique 2 Global Modernity: Levels of Analysis and Conceptual Strategies Introduction Levels of Analysis Descriptions Middle-range Analytical Concepts General Analytical Concepts A Trend-concept: Secularization Conclusion 3 Existential Social Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernity The Problem Existential Social Questions Existential Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernizing Moves Final Words 4 History, Sociology and Modernity Introduction Historical Sociology and Sociological Theory Theory and Mechanisms Conclusion 5 Realism, Trend-concepts and the Modern State Introduction Beyond Empiricism (and Critical Realism) The Modern State and Modern Society Collective Subjectivity, Mechanisms, Modernization Final Words 6 Family, Modernization and Sociological Theory Two Intertwined Themes Globalization and Modernization The Family, the “dimensions” of Social Life and the “existential questions” Conclusion 7 The Basic Forms of Social Interaction Introduction Principles of Organization, Mechanisms of Coordination Principles of Antagonism, Mechanisms of Opposition Coordination, Antagonism Interactive Inclinations Bases of Justification Conclusion 8 The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity: The Trajectory of Peronism Introduction Theoretical Background Historical Peronism The Argentina of Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity 9 Critical Social Theory and Developmental Trends, Emancipation and Late Communism Introduction Capitalism, Accumulation and Communism Contemporary Alternatives Tasks of Critical Theory – or Late Twentieth Century Communism References Index
List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Vicissitudes and Possibilities of Critical Theory Today Defining Critical Theory Contemporary Modernity Renewing Critique 2 Global Modernity: Levels of Analysis and Conceptual Strategies Introduction Levels of Analysis Descriptions Middle-range Analytical Concepts General Analytical Concepts A Trend-concept: Secularization Conclusion 3 Existential Social Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernity The Problem Existential Social Questions Existential Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernizing Moves Final Words 4 History, Sociology and Modernity Introduction Historical Sociology and Sociological Theory Theory and Mechanisms Conclusion 5 Realism, Trend-concepts and the Modern State Introduction Beyond Empiricism (and Critical Realism) The Modern State and Modern Society Collective Subjectivity, Mechanisms, Modernization Final Words 6 Family, Modernization and Sociological Theory Two Intertwined Themes Globalization and Modernization The Family, the “dimensions” of Social Life and the “existential questions” Conclusion 7 The Basic Forms of Social Interaction Introduction Principles of Organization, Mechanisms of Coordination Principles of Antagonism, Mechanisms of Opposition Coordination, Antagonism Interactive Inclinations Bases of Justification Conclusion 8 The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity: The Trajectory of Peronism Introduction Theoretical Background Historical Peronism The Argentina of Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity 9 Critical Social Theory and Developmental Trends, Emancipation and Late Communism Introduction Capitalism, Accumulation and Communism Contemporary Alternatives Tasks of Critical Theory – or Late Twentieth Century Communism References Index
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