{"product_id":"social-theory-a-historical-introduction-hardback-9780745638393","title":"Social Theory; A Historical Introduction (Hardback) 9780745638393","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Historical Introduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlex Callinicos (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745638393, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 February 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e24 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The best of its kind on the market.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Fuller, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Alex Callincos has written one of the best historical introductions to sociological thoery. His book also does a nice job of connecting sociological theory to broader intellectual trends and movements. This new edition sustains the quality and improves the coverage.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, \u003ci\u003eNew York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The second edition of Alex Callincos' \u003ci\u003eSocial Theory\u003c\/i\u003e reads in the same beautifully clear, reliable and accessible way as the first edition. The new material adds a further dimension to this splendid book, bringing it fully up to date with debates in which Callinicos has himself played a part.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Outhwaite, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sussex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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, Lukács, Gramsci, Heidegger, Keynes, Hayek, Parsons, the Frankfurt School, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Beck, and Giddens. \u003cp\u003eCallinicos 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 Žižek.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis updated version of a widely praised text will be essential reading for students of politics, sociology and social and political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The Enlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 1 Prehistory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 2 The concept of modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 3 A moral science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 4 The development of social theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 5 Inner strains\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Hegel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. 1 Reconciling modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. 2 The labour of the negative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. 3 The debate over modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Liberals and Reactionaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. 1 Post-revolutionary debates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. 2 Agonistic liberalism: Tocqueville and Mill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. 3 Providence and race: Maistre and Gobineau\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Marx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. 1 The adventures of the dialectic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. 2 History and capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. 3 Class struggle and revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Life and Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. 1 Evolution before and after Darwin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. 2 Two evolutionists: Spencer and Kautsky\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. 3 Nature as the will to power: Nietzsche\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Durkheim\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. 1 Social evolution and scientific objectivity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. 2 Society as a moral reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. 3 Meaning and belief\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Weber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. 1 Prussian agriculture and the German state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. 2 Science and the warring gods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. 3 History and rationalization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. 4 Liberal imperialism and democratic politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Illusions of Progress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. 1 The strange death of liberal Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. 2 Objectivity and estrangement: Simmel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. 3 The self dissected: Freud\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. 4 Memories of underdevelopment: Russian intellectuals and capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Revolution and Counter-Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. 1 Hegelian Marxism: Lukács and Gramsci\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. 2 Heidegger and the conservative revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. The Golden Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. 1 Theories of capitalism: Keynes and Hayek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. 2 Functionalist sociology: Talcott Parsons\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. 3 Despairing critique: the Frankfurt school\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Crack-Up?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 1 The 1960s and after\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 2 Structure and subject: Lévi-Strauss and Althusser\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 3 Nietzsche’s revenge: Foucault and poststructuralism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 4 Carrying on the tradition: Habermas and Bourdieu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Debating modernity and postmodernity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 1 Postmodernity?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 2 Modernity and capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 3 Reason and nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 4 Theory and practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 5 Universal and particular\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 6 Beyond capitalism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Changing the subject: globalization, capitalism, and imperialism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 1 Much ado about globalization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 2 The social as networks ... or as nothing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 3 Back to capitalism - and imperialism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 4 The debate resumed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407302553880,"sku":"9780745638393","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745638393.jpg?v=1784160181","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-theory-a-historical-introduction-hardback-9780745638393","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}