Discourse and Knowledge
Subtitle: The Making of Enlightenment Sociology (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780853238058
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Social theory; Western philosophy; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; General; Social Science / Sociology / General
Description: This text offers an original interpretation of the rise of sociology from a contemporary point of view. The book goes back behind the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in order to start from the more pervasive communication revolution.