Conversations with Anthony Giddens
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Conversations with Anthony Giddens

Making Sense of Modernity

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eBook - ePub

Conversations with Anthony Giddens

Making Sense of Modernity

About this book

Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has established himself as the most widely-read and widely-cited social theorist of his generation. His ideas have profoundly influenced the writing and teaching of sociology and social theory throughout the English-speaking world. In recent years, his writing has become much more explicitly political, and in 1996 he took up his high-profile appointment as Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is in this new position and with these new political ideas that he has been described as the key intellectual figure of New Labour in Britain. Following the astonishing success of Labour in the 1997 General Election, his ideas have been the focus of intense interest.


In this series of extended interviews with Chris Pierson, Giddens lays out with customary clarity and directness the principal themes in the development of his social theory and the distinctive political agenda which he recommends.


This volume will be of great interest to second- and third-year students in sociology and social theory, politics and political theory, as well as to the general reader.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. The Sociology of Anthony Giddens: An Introduction (Martin O’Brien)
  8. Interview One: Life and Intellectual Career
  9. Interview Two: The Sociological Classics and Beyond
  10. Interview Three: Structuration Theory
  11. Interview Four: Modernity
  12. Interview Five: From the Transformation of Intimacy to Life Politics
  13. Interview Six: Politics Beyond Left and Right
  14. Interview Seven: World Politics
  15. Centre Left at Centre Stage
  16. The Politics of Risk Society
  17. Beyond Chaos and Dogma
  18. Risks, Scares, Nightmares
  19. Back Page