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Reflexive historical sociology / Arpad Szakolczai.

By: Szakolczai, Árpád.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 22.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2000Description: xxii, 281 p. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0415190517.Subject(s): Historical sociology | Civilization, Western | Civilization -- Philosophy | Europe -- CivilizationDDC classification: 301.01
Contents:
Part I: Reflexive historical sociologists -- Introduction to Part I -- Norbert Elias -- Franz Borkenau -- Eric Voegelin -- Lewis Mumford -- Conclusion to Part I: comparisons and contrasts -- Part II: Visions of modernity -- Introduction to Part II -- The protestant spirit (Weber) -- Court society (Elias) -- The mechanical world image (Borkenau) -- The gnostic revolt (Voegelin) -- The new megamachine (Mumford) -- Disciplinary society (Foucault) -- Conclusion to Part II: modernity as permanent liminality -- Conclusion.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called "reflexive historical sociology".

There is analysis of the works of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Eric Voegelin and a number of others. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 examines the works of Eric Voegelin, Norbert Elias, Lewis Mumford and Franz Borkenau. Part 2 is concerned with the major conceptual tools such as experience, liminality, process, symbolisation, figuration, order, dramatisation and reflexivity, and themes such as the history of forms of thought, subjectivity, knowledge and closed space and regulated time. Finally, the book examines the most important insights of the thinkers discussed, concerning the historical processes that led to modernity.

Bibliography: (pages 252-262) and index.

Part I: Reflexive historical sociologists -- Introduction to Part I -- Norbert Elias -- Franz Borkenau -- Eric Voegelin -- Lewis Mumford -- Conclusion to Part I: comparisons and contrasts -- Part II: Visions of modernity -- Introduction to Part II -- The protestant spirit (Weber) -- Court society (Elias) -- The mechanical world image (Borkenau) -- The gnostic revolt (Voegelin) -- The new megamachine (Mumford) -- Disciplinary society (Foucault) -- Conclusion to Part II: modernity as permanent liminality -- Conclusion.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part I Reflexive Historical Sociologists
  • 1 Norbert Elias
  • 2 Franz Borkenau
  • 3 Eric Voegelin
  • 4 Lewis Mumford
  • Conclusion to Part I: Comparisons and Contrasts
  • Part II Visions of Modernity
  • 5 The Protestant Spirit (Weber)
  • 6 Court Society (Elias)
  • 7 The Mechanical World Image (Borkenau)
  • 8 Gnostic Revolt (Voegelin)
  • 9 The New Megamachine (Mumford)
  • 10 Disciplinary Society (Foucault)
  • Conclusion to Part II: Modernity as Permanent Liminality
  • Concluding remarks

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork.

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