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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453517703321

Autore

Strydom Piet <1946->

Titolo

Discourse and knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : the making of enlightenment sociology / / Piet Strydom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-642-0

1-84631-296-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Studies in social and political thought

Disciplina

301/.09

Soggetti

Sociology - History

Knowledge, Sociology of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1: Introduction: Discourse and Sociology; Part I: Theory of Discourse and Discourse Analysis; Introduction: From Presentism and Historicism to Discourse; 2: Theory of Discourse; 3: Sociological Theory of Discourse; 4: Discourse of Modernity; 5: Sociological Discourse Analysis; Part II: Discourse of Modernity and the Construction of Sociology; Introduction: Crisis Discourse and Sociology; 6: The Early Modern Problem of Violence; 7: The Rights Discourse; 8: Contributions to Enlightenment Sociology

9: Discursive Construction of Enlightenment Sociology10: Crisis and Critique: The Relation between Social and Political Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

By closely analysing the contributions of such theorists as More, Hobbes, Vico, Montesquieu, Ferguson and Millar to the emergence of sociology in its original form, Piet Strydom follows the discursive construction of sociology in the context of the society-wide early modern practical discourse about violence and rights. Parallels with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourse on poverty and justice and the contemporary discourse of risk and responsibility allow the author to reflect not only on the generation of knowledge through



discourse but also on the role that sociology itself plays