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Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era
- Title
- Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era / Steven Seidman.
- Author
- Seidman, Steven
- Publication
- Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HM24 .S382 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 361 pages; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Enlightenment and the Classical Tradition: The Dream of Reason. 1. Grand Visions: Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. 2. The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber -- Pt. 2. Disciplining Theory: The Making of a Sociological Theory Canon. 3. From European Social Theory to American Sociological Theory: Talcott Parsons and the Autonomy of Theory. 4. The Triumph of Scientific Theory: Postwar American Sociological Theory and the Abandonment of Public Enlightenment -- Pt. 3. Dislodging the Canon: The Reassertion of a Moral Vision of the Human Sciences. 5. Between Science and Politics: The Critical Theory of C.W. Mills and Jurgen Habermas. 6. Knowledge and Power: The French Poststructuralists. 7. The New Social Movements and the Making of New Social Knowledges. 8. Post-Enlightenment Paradigms of Disciplinary Knowledge: Refashioning Sociology.
- ISBN
- 1557865078 (acid-free paper)
- 1557865086 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 93042087
- OCLC
- 29429338
- ocm29429338
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries