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The Challenge of Progress : Theory Between Critique and Ideology.
Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of ""progress""?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2019.
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| Colección: | Current Perspectives in Social Theory Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Notes; References; Part I. Identifying the Challenge: A Critical Discussion of the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical ... ; History, Critique, and Progress: Amy Allen's "End of Progress" and the Normative Grounding of Critical Theory; History and Normativity; The Entanglement of Reason and Power; Problematizing Genealogy and Metanormative Contextualism; History, Critique, and Mediation; Bibliography
- Inheriting Critical Theory: A Review of Amy Allen's the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical ... Questions and Critiques; Conclusion; Notes; References; Back to Adorno: Critical Theory's Problem of Normative Grounding; Notes; References; Decolonizing Critical Theory; Progress-thinking as Symptomatic; The Displacement of Critique; Experiments in Critical Theory; Totaling Up the Damage; Notes; References; Progress, Normativity, and the "Decolonization" of Critical Theory: Reply to Critics; Notes; References
- Part II. Assessing the Challenge: Progress, Politics, and IdeologyNietzsche after Charlottesville; Nietzsche's Declinist Theory of Western Culture; Nietzsche Contra Nationalism and Antisemitism; After Charlottesville: Nietzsche and Beyond; Notes; References; "How Can [We] Not Know?" Blade Runner as Cinematic Landmark in Critical Thought; Themes Critical-Philosophical; To Be Human; The Relation of Deckard and Rachael; A Concluding Thought; Postscript (November 2017); Notes; References; Sociology at the End of History: Profession, Vocation and Critical Practice; Introduction
- Sociology as a ProfessionSociology as Vocation; Sociology as Critical Practice; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part III. Confronting the Challenge: The Dynamics of Progress in the Modern Age; Las Vegas as the Anthropocene: The Neoliberal City as Desertification All the Way Down; Desertification and Development; Desertifying an Arid Place All the Way Down; Degradation as Desertification; Development as Desertification; Destruction as Desertification; Devastation as Desertification; Environmentality/Entertainmentality as Urban Ecology; Conclusions; References
- Exchanging Social Change for Social Class: Traditional Marriage Proposals as Status and ScripThe Persistence of Traditional Marriage Proposals; Proposal Stories in Consumer Society; Methods; Exchanging Gender-normative Relations for Socioeconomic Status: Marital Status and Social Stigma; Social Status and Romantic Consumption; Traditional Proposal Stories as Scrip; Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Sociology's Emancipation from Philosophy: The Influence of Francis Bacon on Émile Durkheim; Introduction; Against Abstract Speculation; Against Practical Prenotions