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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820233103321

Autore

Wuthnow Robert

Titolo

Communities of discourse : ideology and social structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European socialism / / Robert Wuthnow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1989

ISBN

0-674-04540-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 739 pages)

Disciplina

303.3/72

Soggetti

Social history

Ideology

Reformation

Enlightenment

Capitalism - Europe - History

Socialism - Europe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-732) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction The Problem of Articulation -- Part I The Protestant Reformation -- 1 Contexts and Perspectives -- 2 State Autonomy and the Reformation -- 3 The Failure of Reformation -- 4 Social Conditions and Reformation Discourse -- Part II The Enlightenment -- 5 Mercantilism and the House of Learning -- 6 Cultural Production in France and England -- 7 Enlightenment Developments in Prussia and Scotland -- 8 The Enlightenment in Decentralized Societies -- 9 Autocracy and the Limits of Enlightenment -- 10 Text and Context -- Part III European Socialism -- 11 Institutional and Intellectual Antecedents -- 12 Bismarck's Contribution to German Socialism -- 13 Liberalism in France and Great Britain -- 14 Socialism in the Broader European Context -- 15 Theory and Practice -- Part IV Sociology and Cultural Change -- 16 The Legacy of Classical Theory -- 17 Social Structure and Ideology -- 18 Capitalism and the Shaping of Culture -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status



quo in the development of modern society—the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.