The Civil Sphere - Hardcover

Alexander, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195162501 ISBN 13: 9780195162509

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world?
Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others―the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest―are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.

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Review:

The Civil Sphere offers grand theorizing in ways that remind us of both what we are and what we can be. Jeffrey Alexander offers sociology at least a place from which it may begin again. (The New Republic)

About the Author:

Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is also the author of The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (Oxford, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195162501
• ISBN 13: 9780195162509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 814