A Short History of Society: The Making of the Modern World
A brilliant inquiry into culture and society over some seven centuries, Mary Evans explores the origins and trajectories of modernity from the Reformation through the Enlightenment to the contemporary period. Her intellectual control of complex ideas and diverse forms of evidence is consistently impressive. Exploring various pessimistic, dystopian strands in European perspectives on modernity by Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber and Theodor Adorno, she defends a balanced view of both the negative and positive consequences of modernization. This is historical sociology at its best: judicious, theoretically informed, carefully crafted, grounded in…
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- ISBN: 978-0-335-22067-0
- EAN: 9780335220670
- Produktnummer: 23300329
- Verlag: Open University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.9 cm 196 g
- Gewicht: 196
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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Mary Evans has taught in universities for over thirty five years and is the author of eleven books on subjects ranging from Jane Austen to Contemporary Feminist Thought.
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