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Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought—ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world—are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas. A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment and Beyond
- 2 Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought
- 3 Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology
- 4 Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
- 5 Harriet Martineau: Feminist Sociologist
- 6 Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation
- 7 Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community
- 8 Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
- 9 Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization
- 10 Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
- 11 Georg Simmel: Sociologist as Outsider
- 12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Double Consciousness and Race
- 13 Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
- 14 The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer and Adorno
- 15 Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Liberation
- 16 Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity
- 17 Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
- 18 Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness
- 19 Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason
- 20 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology
- 21 Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism
- 22 Structuralism and Beyond: Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
- 23 Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society
- 24 Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self
- 25 Feminist Social Theory: Chodorow, Butler, and hooks
- 26 Postmodernism: Baudrillard, Haraway, and Bauman
- 27 Jürgen Habermas: Communicative Action
- 28 Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus
- 29 Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory
- Bibliography
- Index