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A social theory : a historical introduction

Providing a historical introduction to social theory, this work traces its connections with central themes in modern philosophy, with the development of political economy and with the impact of evolutionary biology on social thought.

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  • "Social theory :a historical introduction"
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  • "The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The new edition preserves, and further enhances, the book's striking qualities -- its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness and scholarship. The theorists treated include Montesquieu, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Maistre, Gobineau, Darwin, Spencer, Kautsky, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Lukacs, Gramsci, Heidegger, Keynes, Hayek, Parsons, the Frankfurt School, Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Beck, and Giddens. Callinicos examines the ways in which social theory grew out of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, a time when societies emerging in the West ceased to invoke the authority of tradition to validate themselves, instead looking to scientific knowledge to justify their mastery of the world. He traces social theory's connections with central themes in modern philosophy, with the development of political economy, and with the impact of evolutionary biology on social thought. The book has been carefully updated to ensure that it engages with the most current debates in social theory, and concludes with a substantial new chapter. Here Callinicos assesses the significance of contemporary debates about globalization, including the recent re-emergence of critiques of capitalism and imperialism in the work of Michael Hardt, Toni Negri, Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, David Harvey, Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, and Slavoj Zizek. -- Back cover."
  • "Providing a historical introduction to social theory, this work traces its connections with central themes in modern philosophy, with the development of political economy and with the impact of evolutionary biology on social thought."
  • "Providing a historical introduction to social theory, this work traces its connections with central themes in modern philosophy, with the development of political economy and with the impact of evolutionary biology on social thought."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Einführung"

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  • "Toplum kuramı : Tarihsl bir bakış"@tr
  • "Toplum kuramı :Tarihsel bir bakış = Social theory :a historical introduction"
  • "Social theory : A historical introduction"
  • "She hui li lun si xiang shi dao lun"
  • "社會理論思想史導論"
  • "A social theory : a historical introduction"@en
  • "Social theory : a historical introduction"
  • "Social theory : a historical introduction"@en
  • "Toplum kuramı : tarihsel bir bakış"@tr
  • "Toplum kuramı : tarihsel bir bakış"
  • "Toplum kuramı : tarihsel bir bakış =social theory :a historical introduction"@tr

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