02828nam 22004933 450 991102404970332120250813080338.01-04-042899-1(MiAaPQ)EBC32077154(Au-PeEL)EBL32077154(CKB)40166439400041(OCoLC)1532831035(EXLCZ)994016643940004120250813d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial Thought from the Ruins Quixote's Dinner Party1st ed.Oxford :Taylor & Francis Group,2025.©2025.1 online resource (253 pages)A New Order of Social Things Series1-04-100401-X Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Beginning: An Invitation to a Dinner Party -- Part I Crises of Meaning -- 1 Ruins -- 2 Our Times Are Strange -- 3 Making the Contemporary Legible -- 4 Hope(less) -- 5 Notes From Underground -- Part II Curiosity -- 6 Curiosity Outside and Inside the University -- 7 The (In)Tractable Future -- 8 Power I: A Critique of Received Narratives -- 9 Power II: Model Wars -- 10 Data and Conversation -- Part III Powerful Subjects -- 11 Why Do You Want to Talk to Us? -- 12 Reflection -- 13 Translation -- 14 Legitimation -- 15 Education -- Part IV New Buildings From Old Stones -- 16 Old Stones -- 17 Teaching -- 18 Getting There -- 19 To "Theory" and Back -- 20 A Seat at the Table -- 21 Caritas in the People's University -- Part V Hopes -- 22 Humanizing Bureaucracy -- 23 Café Intellectuals -- 24 Philosophy in the Marketplace -- Ending: Books of Dreams -- Index.An extended critique of academic life today and the context of our own thinking, Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote's Dinner Party interrogates aspects of our modernity, with its pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty, and the difficulty of thinking clearly about things like the state and power, data and violence.A New Order of Social Things SeriesIntellectualsUnited StatesSocial conditionsUniversities and collegesUnited StatesSociological aspectsKnowledge, Sociology ofhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072731IntellectualsSocial conditions.Universities and collegesSociological aspects.Knowledge, Sociology of306.094699Westbrook David A1202588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911024049703321Social Thought from the Ruins4433288UNINA