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Ananta Kumar (Hrsg.) Giri

Beyond Sociology

Trans-Civilizational Dialogues and Planetary Conversations

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This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination. It questions accepted modernist assumptions such as the equation of society and nation-state, the dualism of individual and society and that of ontology and epistemology.  Arguing that contemporary sociology suffers from what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like fire power of western sociology, it argues that sociology has to open itself to transcivilizational dialogues and planetary conversations about self, culture and society. The book also challenges scholars to go beyond a privileging of the post-traditional telo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-981-1349-21-8
  • EAN: 9789811349218
  • Produktnummer: 29777348
  • Verlag: Springer Singapore
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Masse: H21.1 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 335 g
  • Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 335

Über den Autor


Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research at universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Kentucky, USA, the University of Freiburg & Humboldt University, Germany and Jagiellonian University in Poland. His research focuses on social movements and cultural change, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. 

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