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Sacred Revolutions
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 72.00It seems improbable, but the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar years?Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel Leiris?responded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge in a "sacred sociology". Michèle H. Richman examines this seemingly paradoxical development in this book which traces the overall implications for French... more...
Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.95"Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law" makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jurgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by globalization. This volume demonstrates... more...
Intellectuals
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed... more...
Handbook of Social Theory
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 79.00This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field. more...
A Philosophical History of German Sociology
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 165.00A Philosophical History of German Sociology presents a systematic reconstruction of critical theory, from the founding fathers of sociology (Marx, Simmel, Weber) via Lukács to the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas). Through an in depth analysis of the theories of alienation, rationalisation and reification, it investigates the metatheoretical... more...
Balans en toekomst van de sociologie
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 54.90De belangstelling voor sociologie groeit weer. Ondanks de vele vooroordelen heeft de sociologie heeft zich in de afgelopen decennia ontwikkeld tot een volwaardige wetenschap. Sociologen richten zich vaak op maatschappelijke onderwerpen waar veel mensen mee te maken hebben en die veel besproken worden. Hun onderzoek levert kennis op die onder de oppervlakte... more...
No Social Science Without Critical Theory
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 102.00Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book examines the links between more...
The Frankfurt School in Exile
University of Minnesota Press 2009; US$ 40.00Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main, in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm,... more...
The Social after Gabriel Tarde
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 158.00The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ?everything is a society and every science a sociology?. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century of near-oblivion, his... more...
Decolonizing European Sociology
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 79.95Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around key sociological concepts and themes, this book considers... more...









