Peter Baehr (Hong Kong Lingnan University)

The Unmasking Style in Social Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements, and in popular culture, charting the intellectual origins of unmasking, its shifting priorities, and its specific techniques in social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781138091764
• ISBN-10: 1138091766
• Artikelnr.: 56784343

Autorenporträt

Peter Baehr is Research Professor in Social Theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of several books, among them Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World; Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences; and Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Elements and Origins of the Unmasking Style 1. Elements of Unmasking 2. Unveiling Religion
Unmasking Society 3. The Marxian Template 4. Illusion More Closely Considered Part 2: O
Sociology 5. Unmasking in Sociology: For
Against
For and Against
Maybe 6. Humanism and Pragmatism: Unmasking
Debunking
and Unveiling in the Sociology of Peter Berger and Luc Boltanski Part 3: Avoiding Unmasking in an Unmasking Age 7. Avoiding Unmasking Appendix - Disclosing
Enclosing
Surveilling References Index