Essays On Freedom of the WillISBN: 978-0-631-14552-3
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128 pages
December 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction 1
Part I Toward Postmodernism: Reconfiguring Theory and Politics
1 General Social Theory, Irony, Postmodernism 17
2 Postmodern Social Theory as Narrative with a Moral Intent 47
3 On the Postmodern Barricades: Feminism, Politics, and Theory 82
4 The Strange Life and Hard Times of the Concept of General Theory in Sociology: A Short History of Hope 101
Part II Critics of Postmodernism: In Defense of Scientific Theory
5 Defending Social Science against the Postmodern Doubt 137
6 The Promise of Positivism 156
7 The Confusion of the Modes of Sociology 179
8 Daring Modesty: On Metatheory, Observation, and Theory Growth 199
Part III Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Toward a Contextualizing General Theory
9 Social Science and Society as Discourse: Toward a Sociology for Civic Competence 223
10 Culture, History, and the Problem of Specificity in Social Theory 244
11 The Tensions of Critical Theory: Is Negative Dialectics All There Is? 289
12 General Theory in the Postpositivist Mode: The "Epistemological Dilemma" and the Search for Present Reason 322
Name Index 369
Subject Index 376