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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808918803321

Autore

Gane Mike

Titolo

French social theory / / Mike Gane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2003

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE, , 2003

ISBN

0-7619-6831-8

1-4462-2849-5

1-280-37035-1

9786610370351

1-4129-3209-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 207 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

301.0944

Soggetti

Sociology - France - History - 19th century

Sociology - France - History - 20th century

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 (p. [191]-199) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - The Post-revolutionary Void; Chapter 2 - Sacritical Theory and the Sociology of Modernity; Chapter 3 - Theory in Crisis: Religion and the Subjective; Chapter 4 - The End of the First Cycle: Scholasticism; Chapter 5 - Social Theory Reborn; Chapter 6 - French Society: Vanguard without Norm; Chapter 7 - The Crisis in Method and the Resort to Theory in Suicide; Chapter 8 - End of Second Cycle: Anthropology and Religion; Chapter 9 - Existential Theory; Chapter 10 - The Algerian War; Chapter 11 - From Pathology to Normativity

Chapter 12 - Structural Theory Chapter 13 - Radical Theory and the End of the Social; Chapter 14 - Fin-de-Cycle: Time of Counter-strategies; Conclusion; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a systematic account of French social theory from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the contemporary scene this text divides it into three logically coherent cycles 1800-80 (Positivist); 1880-1940 (Anthropological); and 1940-2000 (Marxist).