Emancipation and history : the return of social theory /

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Assessing critical theory today, José Maurício Domingues' Emancipation and History focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. Classical and contemporary sociology and social theory are mobilized to re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Domingues, José Maurício (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Théorie critique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Critical theory
Social sciences > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Vicissitudes and possibilities of critical theory today
  • Global modernity : levels of analysis and conceptual strategies
  • Existential social questions, developmental trends and modernity
  • History, sociology and modernity
  • Realism, trend-concepts and the modern state
  • Family, modernization and sociological theory
  • The basic forms of social interaction
  • The imaginary and politics in modernity: the trajectory
  • Critical social theory and developmental trends, emancipation
  • References
  • Index.

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