Dialectics in Social Thought [electronic resource] : The Present Crisis /
Skoll, G.author.
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.
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Dialectics in Social Thought: The Present Crisis; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: Dialectics and Social Thought:The Present Crisis; Social Theory; The Ghosts in the Dialectical Machine; Social Thinkers and the Dialectic; Consummate Dialecticians of Social Thought: Marx and Freud; Modern Society; Rebels; Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Marx and the Dialectic of Capital; Mature Marxian Thought and His Critique of Political Economy; Marx's Sociology; The Grundrisse; Marx's General Sociology; Chapter 3: Freud and the Dialecticof Psychology; Terminology
The Dialectic of Systems of Consciousness and Mental StructureFreud's Social Thought Proper; Freud's Theory of Religion; Critique of Freud's Metapsychology; Chapter 4: Peirce, Mead, Goffman,and InteractionalSocial Science; The Second Industrial Revolution and the American Gilded Age; Peirce, Pragmatics, and Semiotics; Semiotics; Mead, the Self, and Interaction; Dramaturgy and Goffman; Interactional Social Science and the Present Crisis; Chapter 5: Culture and Society; Modern Culture; The Emergence of Modernity; Social and Cultural Fields; Capital and Geography
The Culture of the Present CrisisChapter 6: Critical Theories; The Historical Setting and Theoretical Scaffolding; Critique of the Twentieth Century; History and the Subject; High Modernism; Postwar Dialectics and the Road to Postmodernism; Counterrevolution; Revolt; Chapter 7: Rebellion; Nietzsche; Sartre; Camus; Chapter 8: The Phenomenologists; Alfred Schütz and the Structure of the Life-World; Hermeneutics and Scientific Methods; Hermeneutics and Gadamer; Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Communism; Chapter 9: Contemporary Social Thought: Agamben to Žižek; Agamben; Badiou; Rancière
ŽižekCapital, the State, and Revolution; Chapter 10: The Dialectics of Contemporary Society and the Present Crisis; Terrorism; Terrorism Is Fear Commodified; Finance; Environment; Phenomenology, the Social Imaginary, and the Political Unconscious; Popular Literature; The Material Roots of the Present Crisis; The Dialectics of the Present Crisis; New Directions; Dialectics and Strange Attractors; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Political sociology.
Comparative politics.
Ethics.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Political Sociology.
Comparative Politics.
Ethics.