{"product_id":"social-theory-and-modernity-hardback-9780745613130","title":"Social Theory and Modernity (Hardback) 9780745613130","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Theory and Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNigel Dodd (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745613130, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.535 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'Nigel Dodd is to be congratulated for a most intelligent, mature, organized, balanced, and sane account of the major trends in European social theory over the last century and a half. I know of no sounder secondary source on the theories of modernity and postmodernity. He brings clarity and order to a range of literature that is too often murky and unordered, and for that several generations of scholars and students will be grateful.'\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eNeil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[An] excellent guide to the state of the art in contemporary social theory...provide[s] excellent critical accounts of the evolution and contemporary relevance of modern social theory.' (\u003ci\u003eSociological Research Online\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Dodd's work is thus both a survey of social theory...and an effort to find a new way forward. The book is consciously positioned as a college course text, meaning that unlike truckloads of others on the subject, it is both readable and explicable for those without an MA in the History of Consciousness.' (\u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Political Science\u003c\/i\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\"\u003eThis major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Classical Social Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Modern Social Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Reason and Power: Foucault.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Postmodern Social Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\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":52406536765720,"sku":"9780745613130","price":49.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745613130.jpg?v=1784139769","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-theory-and-modernity-hardback-9780745613130","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}