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Critical and effective histories : Foucault's methods and historical sociology /

Critical and Effective Histories contrasts Foucault's methodologies with central currents in social theory and philosophy. It provides a guide to doing historical sociology, and an original position on the condition of social science today.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dean, Mitchell, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociology, Foucault, and the uses of history; Presentist perspectives; Questions of enlightenment; Weber, rationality, and the subject; A 'specific and peculiar rationalism'? Beyond the rationalisation thesis; Absent history and enlightenment dialectics; Habermas' modernist translations; Thematics of state and power; Governmentality; and practices of the self; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.