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Social Theory: Its Situation and It..., Unger, Roberto
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 1844675157
- EAN
- 9781844675159
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback
- Release Title
- Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task (Politics)
- Artist
- Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1844675157
ISBN-13
9781844675159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30779718
Product Key Features
Book Title
Social Theory Vol. 3 : Its Situation and Its Task
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Military Science, Sociology / General, History & Theory
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Book Series
Politics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-277227
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Politics sours into the rarefied stratosphere of social theory, striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself. Mr. Unger is thus best understood in relation to contemporaries who reach for similar heights, such as European thinkers Hans Blumenberg, Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault."- New York Times, 'eoePolitics sours into the rarefied stratosphere of social theory, striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself. Mr. Unger is thus best understood in relation to contemporaries who reach for similar heights, such as European thinkers Hans Blumenberg, J&u¨rgen Habermas and Michel Foucault.'e�
Dewey Decimal
301
Synopsis
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger.s ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity. Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society about what it is and what it can become. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility., Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity. Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society about what it is and what it can become. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility.
LC Classification Number
JA76
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