Theorizing modernity: inescapability and attainability in social theory
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Main Author: Wagner, Peter 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Sage Publications 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Theorizing Modernity; Chapter 1 -- the Certainty of Knowledge; Chapter 2 -- The Viability of the Polity; Chapter 3 -- The Continuity of Selfhood; Chapter 4 -- The Accessibility of the Past; Interlude: Modernity and Exile; Chapter 5 -- The transparency of the Future; Epilogue: Historicity, Plurality, Problematiques; References; Index
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (150 p.)
ISBN:1412933765
9781412933766

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