LEADER 04502nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910966928503321 005 20251116175010.0 010 $a0-415-75626-X 010 $a1-134-86600-3 010 $a0-7456-1764-6 010 $a1-134-86601-1 010 $a1-280-14924-8 010 $a9786610149247 010 $a0-203-98061-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203980613 035 $a(CKB)1000000000247799 035 $a(EBL)238705 035 $a(OCoLC)61451167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000104039 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11120177 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000104039 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10079356 035 $a(PQKB)10167621 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL238705 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10100548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL14924 035 $a(OCoLC)654650760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC238705 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000247799 100 $a19970618d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnthony Giddens $ethe last modernist /$fStjepan G. Mestrovic 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-09572-7 311 08$a0-415-09573-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 222-231) and index. 327 $aBOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; WHY GIDDENS AND NOT HABERMAS?; ON THE STYLE AND ARGUMENTATION OF THIS BOOK; PARTING THOUGHTS; 2 ANTHONY GIDDENS ; GIDDENS AND THE END OF SOCIOLOGY; CRITICISMS OF GIDDENS; GIDDENS AND POSTMODERNISM; AN OVERVIEW OF GIDDENS'S MAJOR CRITICS; SUMMARY, AND THE PARAMETERS OF THE PRESENT CRITIQUE; 3 THE NEW VERSUS THE OLD RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; GROUNDING HERMENEUTICS; SCHOPENHAUER'S CRITIQUE OF KANT; SOCIOLOGY AS THE SCIENCE OF DISCOVERIES; THE NORMAL VERSUS THE PATHOLOGICAL 327 $aTHE ONE, WELL-DESIGNED EXPERIMENTCONCLUSIONS; 4 THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN AGENCY AND STRUCTURE; DENATURING THE HUMAN AGENT; FAITH AND TRUST; SEARCHING FOR THE HEART OF SOCIOLOGY; HOW GIDDENS ATTEMPTS TO ACCOUNT FOR EMOTION IN HUMAN HISTORY; THE PARADOX OF AGENCY LEADING TO LESS AGENCY; DURKHEIM'S DEPICTION OF FAITH IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL LIFE; THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 5 GIDDENS'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY; GIDDENS'S CRITIQUE OF MARX; ELABORATING GIDDENS'S POSITION ON NATIONALISM AND THE NATION-STATE; GIDDENS ON POST-TRADITION 327 $aGIDDENS'S VERSION OF THE END OF HISTORYTHE MEANINGS OF BOSNIA; FROM BOSNIA TO RUSSIA; CONCLUSIONS; 6 GIDDENS'S MODERNISM LITE; THE MUTUAL UNAWARENESS OF GIDDENS AND BAUDRILLARD; POSTMODERNITY TRANSFORMED INTO MODERNITY LITE; THE ROLE OF THE INFORMATION MEDIA; CONCLUSIONS; 7 UNLIMITED AGENCY AS THE NEW ANOMIE; PARTIAL AGENCY; MENTAL ILLNESS AS A PROBLEM WITH AGENCY; CAN EXCESSIVE AGENCY LEAD TO ANOMIE?; LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A RECONTEXTUALIZED READING OF DURKHEIM'S CONCEPT OF ANOMIE; ANOMIE AS SECULAR SIN; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 8 CONCLUSIONS; MIXING METAPHORS 327 $aCONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGISTS AS THE LEISURE CLASSSUMMARY; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX 330 $aAnthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure.
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