Theorizing Modernity

Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5147-6
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

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. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of the past, and the transparency of the future. The book demonstrates how these questions are addressed in different forms and by different intellectual means during the past 200 years and shows how they persist today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Certainty of Knowledge The Viability of the Polity The Continuity of Selfhood The Accessibility of the Past Interlude Modernity and Exile The Transparency of the Future Epilogue Historicity, Plurality, Probl[ac]ematiques

Über Autor(innen)

Wagner, Peter
Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence