Screen LibraryThinking the unthinkable：the riddles of classical social theories
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| Published: |
Paradigm Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Boulder |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Great Barrington books |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 195 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781594511851 (alk. paper) 1594511853 (alk. paper) 9781594511868 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1594511861 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C91 |
| CLC: |
C91 C91-09 |
| Call Number: | C91/L552-1 |
| Contents: |
"Great Barrington books"--P. [ii]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index. What is social theory? total destruction, bead lust, and other unreasonable social things -- The impossible reasons of modern civilizations -- Social theory and modernity's unthinkable -- Social violence as the bead lust of the unthinkable -- Five ways to skin a cat: modernity's five riddles -- Unthinkable social things : five solutions to the riddle of the defiant darkness, 1848-1914 -- Light and dark -- Revolutionary reasons: Karl Marx and the pot of solid modernity -- Rationality's double-bind: Max Weber and modernity's threat to the human spirit -- The reasonable hope of a social bond: |