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Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent, and Revolution

By Timothy W. Luke

Book information

Publisher
Inc, Sage Publications
Year
1990
ISBN
0803938608, 9780803938601
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15241018 bytes)
Pages
278\277
Time added
2015-01-29 08:47:55

Description

Social 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's theoretical tactics, Cabral's theory of critique and revolution and Foucault's system of political and social analysis. The book concludes by offering

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