Nigel Dodd

Social Theory and Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780745613147
• ISBN-10: 0745613144
• Artikelnr.: 14845496

Autorenporträt

Nigel Dodd is Lecturer in Sociology, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory.
Part I: Classical Social Theory.
1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim.
2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber.
Part II: Modern Social Theory.
3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse.
4. Reason and Power: Foucault.
5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas.
Part III: Postmodern Social Theory.
6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard.
7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty.
8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck.
Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Rezensionen

Nigel Dodd is to be congratulated for a most intelligent, mature, organized, balanced, and sane account of the major trends in European social theory over the last century and a half. I know of no sounder secondary source on the theories of modernity and postmodernity. He brings clarity and order to a range of literature that is too often murky and unordered, and for that several generations of scholars and students will be grateful.
-- Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

[An] excellent guide to the state of the art in contemporary social theory...provide[s] excellent critical accounts of the evolution and contemporary relevance of modern social theory. ( Sociological Research Online )

Dodd s work is thus both a survey of social theory...and an effort to find a new way forward. The book is consciously positioned as a college course text, meaning that unlike truckloads of others on the subject, it is both readable and explicable for those without an MA in the History of Consciousness. ( Canadian Journal of Political Science )