Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

by Roger A. Salerno

Overview

Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought—ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world—are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.

A mixture of biographical and historical ideas, this book was written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and as a reflection of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a useful tool for those interested in sociology and its many luminaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275977245
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/30/2004
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

ROGER A. SALERNO is Professor of Sociology at Pace University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Enlightenment and Beyond
Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought
Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology
Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
Harriet Marineau: Feminist Sociologist
Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation
Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community
Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
Georg Simmel: Sociologists as Outsider
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Double Consciousness of Race
Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
Adorno and Horkheimer: The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory
Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity
Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness
Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason
Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology
Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism
Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault: Structuralism and Beyond: Poststructuralism
Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society
Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self
Nancy Chodorow, Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks: Feminist Social Theory
Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, Zygmunt Bauman: Postmodernism
Jurgen Habermas: Communicative Action
Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus
Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory