Creativity and critique : subjectivity and agency in Touraine and Ricoeur / by Glenda Ballantyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballantyne, Glenda.

Series:

Social and critical theory ; v. 4.

Social and critical theory, 1572-459X ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Critical theory.

Touraine, Alain.

Ricur, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many commentators have noted the fertile new intellectual period Critique of Modernity opened up in the social theory of Alain Touraine, but until now its innovations have not been the subject of a sustained analysis. This work locates the wellsprings of Touraine’s renewed interpretive power in an implicit and unfinished, but unmistakable ‘hermeneutical turn.’ To deepen and extend his potent but only partly developed insights, the second part of the book develops his hermeneutical premises more explicitly, through a dialogue with the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. The outcome is a critical hermeneutics of the subject, which opens new possibilities for theorising human agency and social creativity, and renews the project of critical theory.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / G. Ballantyne

Chapter One. Proto-Hermeneutics / G. Ballantyne

Chapter Two. The Actor As Subject / G. Ballantyne

Chapter Three. Horizons Of Modernity / G. Ballantyne

Chapter Four. Critical Hermeneutics / G. Ballantyne

Chapter Five. The Subject As Actor / G. Ballantyne

Chapter Six. Paradoxes Of Democracy / G. Ballantyne

Bibliography / G. Ballantyne

Index / G. Ballantyne.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92651-5

9786611926519

90-474-2245-7

OCLC:

646789950

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004157798.i-213 DOI