Reconstructing social theory, history and practice

With regard to developments in social theory, the past 30 years can be characterized as an Age of Deconstruction. Inspired by post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical theory, and science studies, as well as combinations of related approaches, theorists have endeavored to shatter historical meta-n...

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Other Authors Dahms, Harry F., Lybeck, Eric Royal
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, c. 2016.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v. 35.
Subjects
Social sciences > Philosophy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786354693
ISSN0278-1204 ;
DOI10.1108/S0278-1204201735
Physical Description1 online resource (xxi, 277 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the true, good, and the beautiful: towards an investigation of the structures of social thought / John Levi Martin
  • The concept of normative reconstruction: Honneth, Hegel, and the aims of critical social threory / Andrew Buchwalter
  • Euporia: on the limits, horizons and possibilities of critique (or: on reconstruction) / Raymond Aaron Younis
  • Reconstructing the self: a Goffmanian perspective / Simon Susen
  • Weber and Levinas on modernity and the problem of suffering: reconstructing social theory as ethically framed rather than epistemologically framed / Stan J. Knapp
  • Rowan Williams and Hans-Georg Gadamer Contra Ju<U+0308>rgen Habermas: rethinking the problem of religion for liberals as a problem of dialogue / Justin Cruickshank
  • Theoretical reconstruction for welfare state democracy: 'third way' sociology and the art of the possible / E. Stina Lyon
  • Reconstructive science and the European Constitution: Habermas, citizenship, and the tension between facts and norms / William Outhwaite
  • Turning the circle: considerations of "the postmodern turn" a<U+0300> la Simon Susen / Lawrence Hazelrigg.

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