Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz write by Oliver Kozlarek. This book was released on 2016-08-23. Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’ sociological ideas to contemporary debates, arguing that Paz’ sociology is linked very closely to his assessment of what could be called the post-colonial condition that Mexico has been experiencing. The book thus advances the understanding of the differences between post-colonial experiences in Latin America and those of other areas of the world. In addition to revealing Paz’ sociology, the book focuses on Modernity and examines Paz’ critique of Modernity and his “project of Modernity”. It shows that a close examination of the works of Octavio Paz helps redefine Modernity from a Latin American perspective as an experience in which the global and local are intertwined, and helps to point in the direction of a new kind of humanism.
The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique
The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique write by Oliver Kozlarek. This book was released on 2024-05-15. The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to extract a kind of Critical Humanism from the works of prominent members of the Frankfurt School. Oliver Kozlarek argues that what is compelling about this kind of restitution of humanism is the fact that it sought to be understood not as a conceptual-theoretical construction, but as a practice of critical social and cultural research. This means that it does not orient itself to an ideal image of the human being, but to making inhuman conditions of our current societies visible. It is above all in this sense that humanism is no longer understood in a Humboldtian, educational sense. Rather, it is about using critical social research as a political practice.
Postcolonial Sociology
Postcolonial Sociology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcolonial Sociology write by Julian Go. This book was released on 2013-02-27. Postcolonial Sociology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial Sociology
Social Theory Now
Social Theory Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Theory Now write by Claudio E. Benzecry. This book was released on 2017-08-14. Social Theory Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In Social Theory Now, Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed set a new course for sociologists, bringing together contributions from the most distinctive?sociological?traditions?in an ambitious survey of where social theory is today and where it might be going. The book?provides a strategic window onto social theory based on current research, examining trends in classical traditions and the cutting edge of more recent approaches. From distinctive theoretical positions, contributors address questions about?how social order is accomplished; the role of materiality, practice, and meaning; as well as the conditions for the knowledge of the social world. The theoretical traditions presented include cultural sociology, microsociologies, world-system theory and post-colonial theory, gender and feminism, actor network and network theory, systems theory, field theory, rational choice, poststructuralism, pragmatism, and the sociology of conventions. Each chapter introduces a tradition and presents an agenda for further theoretical development. Social Theory Now is an essential tool for sociologists. It will be central to the discussion and teaching of contemporary social theory?for years to come.
Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age
Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age write by Saïd Amir Arjomand. This book was released on 2014-05-21. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization. In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the conduct of comparative analysis in the global age. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age moves beyond facile generalizations based on the historical experience of modernization in the West by highlighting differences rather than similarities and contrasts rather than commonalities, and by examining civilizational processes and culturally specific developmental patterns distinctive of different world regions. Essays combine comparative and historical sociology with civilizational analysis and the study of multiple and alternative modernities. Different patterns of modernization are compared within the framework of global/local compressed communication and interaction that results from globalization. The introductory chapter puts the present effort in the context of the seminal work of three generations of comparative sociologists, and what follows is a penetrating analysis of modernization and globality, opening the way for rectifying the erasure of the historical experience of a very sizeable portion of humankind from the foundation of social theory.
