03037nam 2200469Ia 450 991080914220332120200520144314.01-4833-2553-91-4522-5273-4(CKB)2560000000089912(EBL)997163(OCoLC)809774153(MiAaPQ)EBC997163(EXLCZ)99256000000008991219900226d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial theory and modernity critique, dissent, and revolution /Timothy W. Luke1st ed.Newbury Park, Calif. Sage Publicationsc19901 online resource (277 pages)0-8039-3861-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-268) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Marxologies: Critical Social Theory and Modernity; Introduction and Overview; Part II - Technology, Technique, and Social Transformation; Chapter 1 - On Techno-Power: Technics and Marx's Materialist Conception of History; Chapter 2 - Technique in Marx's Method of Political Economy; Chapter 3 - Gramsci and Revolution: On the Theory of Workers' Councils and the Working-Class Party; Part III - Instrumental Reason and Popular Revolution; Chapter 4 - The Dialectics of Social Critique in Rousseau: On Nature and SocietyChapter 5 - A Phenomenological/Freudian Marxism? Marcuse's Critique of Advanced Industrial Society; Chapter 6 - After One-Dimensionality: Culture and Politics in the Age of Artificial Negativity; Part IV - Power, Discourse, and Culture in the Developing World; Chapter 7 - Cabral's Marxism: An African Strategy for Socialist Development; Chapter 8 - Discourses of Modernization and Development: Theory and Doctrine After 1945; Chapter 9 - Foucault and the Discourses of Power: Developing a Genealogy of the Political Culture Concept; Index; About the AuthorSocial Theory and Modernity combines the analytical techniques of political theory and comparative politics as a method for conducting innovative inquiry and research in political science. The focus of political theory, for example, results in new issues for historical and cross-national comparative analysis - whereas comparative analysis provides new parameters for analyzing the ideology of social institutions. Luke elaborates upon Rousseau's discursive style and critical methods, Marx's historical materialism, Marcuse's instrumental rationality, Weber's interpretive method, Gramsci'sMarxian school of sociologySocial history20th centuryMarxian school of sociology.Social history301.01Luke Timothy W254452MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809142203321Social theory and modernity4031860UNINA