Social Theory and ModernityISBN: 978-0-7456-1314-7
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288 pages
October 1999, Polity
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Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory.
Part I: Classical Social Theory.
1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim.
2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber.
Part II: Modern Social Theory.
3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse.
4. Reason and Power: Foucault.
5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas.
Part III: Postmodern Social Theory.
6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard.
7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty.
8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck.
Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.
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