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Beyond the Enlightenment Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists
Roger A. Salerno
ISBN: 0-275-97725-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97725-2
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2004
List Price: $33.95 (UK Sterling Price: £23.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought—ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world—are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.

A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    The Enlightenment and Beyond
    Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought
    Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology
    Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
    Harriet Marineau: Feminist Sociologist
    Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation
    Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community
    Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
    Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization
    Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
    Georg Simmel: Sociologists as Outsider
    W.E.B. Du Bois: The Double Consciousness of Race
    Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
    Adorno and Horkheimer: The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory
    Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
    Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity
    Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
    Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness
    Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason
    Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology
    Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism
    Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault: Structuralism and Beyond: Poststructuralism
    Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society
    Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self
    Nancy Chodorow, Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks: Feminist Social Theory
    Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, Zygmunt Bauman: Postmodernism
    Jurgen Habermas: Communicative Action
    Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus
    Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory
About the Author: ROGER A. SALERNO is Professor of Sociology at Pace University.
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