Skoll Dialectics in Social Thought

The Present Crisis
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-38706-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection

Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and Sartre; and current contributors like Badiou, Rancière, and Žižek.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skoll, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Dialectics and Social Thought 2. Marx and the Dialectic of Capital 3. Freud and the Dialectic of Psychology 4. Peirce, Mead, Goffman, and Interactional Social Science 5. Culture and Society 6. Critical Theories 7. Rebellion 8. The Phenomenologists 9. Contemporary Social Thought: Agamben to Zizek 10. Dialectics of Contemporary Society and the Present Crisis

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey R. Skoll is emeritus faculty member in Criminal Justice at Buffalo State College, USA. Previous books include Contemporary Criminology and Criminal Justice Theory (2009) and Social Theory of Fear (2010).