Social Thought from the Ruins : Quixote's Dinner Party

• Autore: Westbrook David A
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.094699
• Soggetto topico: Intellectuals - United States - Social conditions; Universities and colleges - United States - Sociological aspects; Knowledge, Sociology of
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Social Thought from the Ruins
• ISBN: 1-04-042899-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911024049703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: A New Order of Social Things Series