Charles C Lemert

Thinking the Unthinkable

The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

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Produktbeschreibung

In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. "Thinking the Unthinkable" is offered as text for instruction, yet it defies the prevailing assumption that social theory is a method for clarifying the facts of social life. Lemert shows how social theory began late in the 19th century as a struggle to come to terms with the failure of modern reason to solve the social problems created by the capitalist world-system. Since then, social theory has developed through twists and turns to think and rethink this Unthinkable. Hence the surprising innovations of recent years - postmodern, queer, postcolonial, third-wave feminist, risk theories, among others arising in the wake of globalization. Once again, Lemert has made the difficult clear in a book that students and other readers will treasure and keep.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781594511851
• ISBN-10: 1594511853
• Artikelnr.: 20951015

Autorenporträt

Charles Lemert

Inhaltsangabe

Part I What Is Social Theory?
Chapter 1 The Impossible Reasons of Modern Civilizations
Chapter 2 Social Theory and Modernity's Unthinkable
Chapter 3 Social Violence as the Bead Lust of the Unthinkable
Chapter 4 Five Ways to Skin a Cat
Part II Unthinkable Social Things
Chapter 5 Revolutionary Reasons
Chapter 6 Rationality's Double-Bind
Chapter 7 The Reasonable Hope of a Social Bond
Chapter 8 Perverse Reasons
Chapter 9 Unreasonable Differences
Part III The Exiled Others Think the Unthinkable
Chapter 10 Beyond the Double-Bind
Chapter 11 A Revolutionary Social Bond
Chapter 12 The Strange Social Benefits of Conflict
Chapter 13 The Social Structure of Meanings
Chapter 14 The Unfolding of Social Theory in the Unraveling of the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First