Handbook of contemporary European social theory / edited by Gerard Delanty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delanty, Gerard.

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Europe.

Sociology.

Social sciences--Europe--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Philosophy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought in the broadest sense of the term. The volume surveys the classical heritage, the major national traditions; the fate of social theory in a post-national and post-disciplinary era; identifies what is distinctive about European social theory. It is divided into five parts: disciplinary traditions, national traditions, major schools, key themes, and the reception of European social theory in American and Asia. It is an indispensable book for students, teachers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, politics, philosophy and human geography.

Contents:

Founders, classics, and canons in the formation of social theory / Thomas m. Kemple

Social theory and the social sciences / Patrick Baert

Social theory and political philosophy / Peter Wagner

Social theory and theology / Austin Harrington

Contemporary German social theory / Hauke Brunkhorst

The age of epigones : post-Bourdieusian social theory in France / Frédéric Vandenberghe

The peculiarities of the British : social theory in the United Kingdom / David Inglis

Everything changes and nothing changes : change, culture and identity in contemporary Italian social theory / Monica Sassatelli

Contemporary Spanish social theory / Salvador Giner and Manuel Pérez Yruela

Nordic social theory : between social philosophy and grounded theory / Lars Mjøset

Contemporary East Central European social theory / Arpad Szakolczai and Harald Wydra

Contemporary Russian social theory / Alexander Dmitriev

How to criticize? Convergent and divergent paths in critical theories of society / Stefan Müller-Doohm

After dialectics : postmodernity, post-Marxism, and other posts and positions / Göran Therborn

Hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology / Hans-Herbert Kögler

Contemporary European cognitive social theory / Piet Strydom

Civilizational analysis, social theory and comparative history / Johann P. Amason

Cosmopolitanism : a social science research agenda / Robert Fine

European master narratives about freedom / Agnes Heller

Modernity and the escape from eurocentrism / Gerard Delanty

European transformations / William Outhwaite

The politics of commemoration : the Holocaust, memory and trauma / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider

Cultural identities / Heidrun Friese

Nations, belonging and community / Ulf Hedetoft

Theorizing the European city / Engin F. Isin

Making sense of the public sphere / Klaus Elder

Nature, embodiment and social theory / Phil Macnaghten

Euros to America : the disciplining, deconstruction and diaspora of American social theory / Ben Agger

Encounters between European and Asian social theory / Fred Dallmayr

Social theory, 'Latin' America and modernity / José Maurício Domingues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

0415355184

9780415355186

OCLC:

60798435