Aspects of Enlightenment
Aspects of Enlightenment is an attempt to reconfigure the terrain of contemporary social theory. Critical of sociologistic approaches in that discipline and of vague concepts such as modernity and postmodernity, the book argues that the proper subject matter of social theory is enlightenment itself. Dismissing for the most part the conflicts in social and critical theory between realist and relativist approaches, the book argues for the merits of various limited kinds of anti-foundationalism that would guide fieldwork in specific areas of enlightenment. As a means of illustrating this approach, the book focuses on case studies that consider c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-7086-3
- EAN: 9780742570863
- Produktnummer: 22961580
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'231 KB
Über den Autor
Thomas Osborne is lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Bristol in Bristol, England.
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