The Frontiersman by Allan W Eckert

The Frontiersman by Allan W Eckert

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The Frontiersman by Allan W Eckert

This book is built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. The volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Anthony Giddens has developed over the past two decades. It therefore serves as a comprehensive introduction to some of the main debates preoccupying the social sciences and politics.

The volume includes discussions of politics and sociology in the thought of Max Weber, together with analyses of Durkheim's political sociology and his interpretation of individualism and solidarity in modern societies. Various more contemporary figures are also subjected to critical dissection and appraisal, most notably Habermas, Foucault, Marcuse, Garfinkel and Popper.

A number of unifying themes associated with Giddens's standpoint run through each of the chapters: the methodological reconstruction of social investigation, the re-interpretation of modernity and the reformulation of a critical theory of politics.

The work will be of interest to anyone concerned with the major dilemmas faced by social and political theory today, as well as those seeking to follow the overall trajectory of Giddens's thinking.

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ISBN 13 9780553257991
ISBN 10 0553257994
Titel The Frontiersman
Autor Eckert
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Erscheinungsjahr 1984-11-01
Seitenanzahl 751
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