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Critical and effective histories : Foucault's methods and historical sociology / Mitchell Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Mitchell, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Historical sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Critical and Effective Histories contrasts Foucault's methodologies with central currents in social theory and philosophy. It provides a guide to doing historical sociology, and an original position on the condition of social science today.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociology, Foucault, and the uses of history; Presentist perspectives; Questions of enlightenment; Weber, rationality, and the subject; A 'specific and peculiar rationalism'? Beyond the rationalisation thesis; Absent history and enlightenment dialectics; Habermas' modernist translations; Thematics of state and power; Governmentality; and practices of the self; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-92130-6
- 1-134-92131-4
- 1-280-10434-1
- 0-203-41421-7
- 0-203-31501-4
- 9780203414217
- OCLC:
- 647380535
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