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Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book 18 Lectures on Industrial Society written by Raymond Aron and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reed M. Davis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807136591
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book A Politics of Understanding written by Reed M. Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In A Politics of Understanding, Reed M. Davis assesses the originality and consistency of Aron's body of work, drawing a connection between Aron's philosophy of history and three of his abiding interests: the nature of industrial society, international relations theory, and strategic theory. Davis begins with a brief biography of Aron, known for his skepticism toward political ideologies in the post--World War II era and as an intellectual opponent of Jean-Paul Sartre. After spending three years in Germany in the early 1930s, Aron, a Jew, returned to France in 1933. When war broke out, he fought for a year in the French army and, after the fall of France, escaped to London, where he edited the newspaper of the Free French, La France Libre. He returned to Paris after the war and remained there for the rest of his life, working as a professor and journalist. He wrote an influential political column for Le Figaro for thirty years and authored many books, including The Opium of the Intellectuals (1935), The Algerian Tragedy (1957), and Peace and War (1962). From World War II onward, Davis shows, Aron sought to construct a science of human action that had as its goal charting the way of human progress in light of two fundamental realities, industrialization and the existence of nuclear weapons. Throughout his long career, he continually asked himself whether human life was becoming better as it became more technologically rationalized and more scientifically advanced. In his close analysis of Aron's thought, Davis carefully describes how Aron fused Max Weber's neo-Kantianism with Edmund Husserl's phenomenology to create an original theory of historical knowledge. The central theoretical impulse in all of Aron's works, Davis explains, is that of reconciling freedom and necessity. The ways in which Aron attempted to reconcile these two polarities in his earliest writings had a direct bearing on the manner in which he sought to reconcile realism and idealism in his international thought. By attempting to bring reason and necessity into the same loose orbit, Aron tried to construct a theoretical approach to international relations and statecraft that could hold the middle ground between realism and idealism. Many scholars have simply abandoned efforts to understand the more philosophical dimensions of Aron's thinking because of its technical difficulty. With A Politics of Understanding, Davis provides a concise and clearly written explanation of the basic concepts at work in Aron's philosophy and ties them directly to his later thinking, especially concerning international relations.
Author : Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000604276
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Capitalism written by Nico Stehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in a new epoch; it is the idea that modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies under intensive capitalism, whereby the legal encoding of knowledge through national and international law is the lever that enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism. The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, negotiated between 1986 and 1994 as part of the World Trade Organization, is the backbone of the modern society and marks a clear historical demarcation, and although knowledge capitalism is primarily an economic development, the digital giants who are in the driver’s seat have significant effects on the social structure and culture of modern society.
Author : Joachim Stark
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839980044
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron written by Joachim Stark and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social ramifications of its day-to-day life. Aron experts from a total of seven countries examine Aron’s sociology in detail starting with his road from philosophy to sociology not least under the impression of the Great Depression and its aftermath, especially the rise of National Socialism in Germany. His epistemological studies on the limits of objective knowledge in history and the social sciences in which he moves away from Durkheim's approach and instead adopts Max Weber's sociology of understanding are analysed. This acknowledgment of the limits of knowledge laid the foundations for Aron’s liberalism and humanism. His sociology of industrial society as an economy of economic growth in its market economy and planned economy versions, its social stratification, his criticism of the Marxist concept of social class, the structure of the ruling elites and the pluralistic and one-party, totalitarian political regimes are presented, as is Aron's analysis of the dialectic of modern society between the idea of equality and the authority structures in the state and the economic process. This is accompanied by Aron's lifelong criticism of those intellectuals above all in the pluralist and liberal democracies who hope that a messianic ideology will abolish all social contradictions. Aron’s sociology of international relations in the age of industrial society and globalization, which for Aron brought about the dawn of universal history, complete the overview of Raymond Aron's sociological work.
Author : G. Payne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349185299
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Mobility and Change in Modern Society written by G. Payne and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-01-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119250749
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory written by Bryan S. Turner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole
Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719031
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Transformations of Capitalism written by Harry F. Dahms and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shakespeare's gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan—performed by cross-dressing prostitutes—to the NEA-denounced performance art of Holly Hughes, theater has long been—as co-editor Alisa Solomon terms it—the queerest art. The Queerest Art is a pioneering collection of essays by and conversations among a diverse range of leading theater academics and artists. The first anthology to bring scholars and makers of queer theater into direct dialogue, the volume explores such subjects as same-sex desire in Restoration comedy, the racialized impact of colonial Shakespeare, the cuerpo politizado of a performance artist in contemporary Los Angeles, and the nitty-gritty of getting a queer show presented in Peoria. The Queerest Art rereads the history of performance as a celebration and critique of dissident sexualities, exploring the politics of pleasure and the pleasure of politics that drive the theater. Lively and accessible, The Queerest Art will be useful to scholars, students, artists, and theater-goers alike interested in what makes queer theater . . . and what makes theater queer. Contributors include: Jill Dolan, Brian Freeman, Randy Gener, George E. Haggerty, Holly Hughes, Ania Loomba, Tim Miller, José Esteban Muñoz, Deb Parks-Satterfield, Lola Pashalinski, Everett Quinton, David Román, David Savran, Laurence Senelick, Don Shewey, Carmelita Tropicana, Valerie Traub, Paula Vogel, Doric Wilson, and Stacy Wolf.
Author : Timothy Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429785003
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Industrial Systems written by Timothy Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside Western capitalism? What are the salient evolutionary developments now occurring in all advanced capitalist systems? What light can social theory throw upon the evolution of industrial systems thus far and in the future? In answering these questions the author provides an exposition of how the Soviet system works and how the Japanese system developed; a critical analysis of three issues of major contemporary concern – the control of giant corporations, the impact of automation, and the shift to service employment; and a commentary on the theories of classical and contemporary social thinkers. Concluding with his own conceptualisation of the determinants of industrial evolution, the author also offers his own evaluation of the needs of the advanced industrial societies.
Author : Cristiano Luis Lenzi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666911518
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Environmental Sociology written by Cristiano Luis Lenzi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society. In this book, Cristiano Luis Lenzi critically examines these concepts, aiming to show how controversial environmental sociology still is. The book offers a nuanced interpretation of some of the issues and disputes that arise in the debate over these approaches in the sociological literature.
Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351490486
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Social Change and Politics written by Morris Janowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of Western advanced industrial nations that have been faced with marked strain in their political institutions. These nation-states have been experiencing a decline in popular confidence and distrust of the political process, an absence of decisive legislative majorities, and an increased inability to govern effectively, that is, to balance and to contain competing interest group demands and resolve political conflicts.Janowitz uses the sociological idea of social control to explore the sources of these political dilemmas. Social control does not imply coercion or the repression of the individual by societal institutions. Social control is, rather, the face of coercive control. It refers to the capacity of a social group, including a whole society, to regulate itself. Self-regulation implies a set of higher moral principles beyond those of self-interest.Since the end of World War II, the expanded scope of empirical research has profoundly transformed the sociological discipline. The repeated efforts to achieve a theoretical reformulation have left a positive residue, but there have been no new conceptual breakthroughs that are compelling. This book is a concerted and detailed effort organize and to make sense out of the vastly increased body of empirical research.
Author : José Colen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137522437
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Companion to Raymond Aron written by José Colen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues and uncommon merits of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism. The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential supplement to Aron's autobiography Mémoires (1984) and main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought.
Author : Mau, Steffen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847426549
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)
Download or read book European Societies written by Mau, Steffen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title looks at the European model in historical perspective, commonalities and intra-European exchange, and characteristics of the European social structure.
Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226393063
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Last Half-Century written by Morris Janowitz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janowitz examines the societal changes that have weakened the electoral system and contributed to the further decline of social control, and encourages the development of new forms of citizen participation.
Author : Geoffrey Hawthorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521337212
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment and Despair written by Geoffrey Hawthorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed critical history of social theory from the eighteenth century onwards.
Author : Brian C. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585080909
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Raymond Aron written by Brian C. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and penetrating analysis introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of twentieth- century French intellectual life. Portraying Raymond Aron as a great defender of reason, moderation, and political sobriety in an era dominated by ideological fervor and philosophical fashion, Brian Anderson demonstrates the centrality of political reason to Aron's philosophy of history, his critique of ideological thinking, his meditations on the perennial problems of peace and war, and the nature of conservative liberalism. This accessible study of Aron's thought and the thought of his contemporaries will enhance any syllabus for classes on modern and contemporary political thought.
Author : The late Tom Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134451466
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Frankfurt School and its Critics written by The late Tom Bottomore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Social Research, from which the Frankfurt School developed, was founded in the early years of the Weimar Republic. It survived the Nazi era in exile, to become an important centre of social theory in the postwar era. Early members of the school, such as Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse, developed a form of Marxist theory known as Critical Theory, which became influential in the study of class, politics, culture and ideology. The work of more recent members, and in particular Habermas, has received wide attention throughout Europe and North America. Tom Bottomore's study takes a new and controversial look at the contributions of the Frankfurt School to modern sociology, examining several issues not previously discussed elsewhere. He discusses the neglect of history and political economy by the critical theorists, and considers the relationship of the later Frankfurt School to the radical movements of the 1960s and the present time. His critical analysis makes the school's writers accessible, through an assessment of their work and an exploration of the relationship of Critical Theory to other forms of sociological thought, especially positivism and structuralism.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429766440
Total Pages : 10422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 10422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set examines a vast range of topics covering all experiences of business and economics from across Asia. Dealing with early banking systems in China; the industrialisation of Korea and Taiwan; the evolution of Japanese business practices; economic development; protectionist policies; industrial investment; trade; tourism; and a host of other topics, the books collected here form a vital reference resource across a wide subject area.
