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Critique As a Modern Social Phenomenon : the Critical Society.

What are the origins and purposes of social critique? Rather than use critique as a mode of investigating social phenomenon, this book analyses critique as a social phenomenon. Critique is both constitutive of modernity and exceedingly diverse, and not only that but widely taken for granted in schol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boland, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What are the origins and purposes of social critique? Rather than use critique as a mode of investigating social phenomenon, this book analyses critique as a social phenomenon. Critique is both constitutive of modernity and exceedingly diverse, and not only that but widely taken for granted in scholarly communities. Herein, the resources of historical sociology and anthropology are used in order to gain perspective on critique as something culturally specific to modernity. Based on this, I analyze critique as moving force in history, part of the dynamic of capitalism and consumerism, a recurri.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (438 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-410) and index.
ISBN:9780773417984
0773417982