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Reflexive Historical Sociology (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) - Softcover

Book 18 of 165: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Szakolczai, Arpad

 
9780415558624: Reflexive Historical Sociology (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041555862X ISBN 13: 9780415558624
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called "reflexive historical sociology".

There is analysis of the works of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Eric Voegelin and a number of others. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 examines the works of Eric Voegelin, Norbert Elias, Lewis Mumford and Franz Borkenau. Part 2 is concerned with the major conceptual tools such as experience, liminality, process, symbolisation, figuration, order, dramatisation and reflexivity, and themes such as the history of forms of thought, subjectivity, knowledge and closed space and regulated time. Finally, the book examines the most important insights of the thinkers discussed, concerning the historical processes that led to modernity.

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About the Author

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041555862X
ISBN 13 
9780415558624
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304