Book Details
Orange Code:28007
Paperback:185 pages
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1. RETHINKING THE SOCIAL2. DURKHEIM APPROACHES THE SOCIAL3. DURKHEIM’S PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL4. MARX ON THE SOCIAL AND THE SOCIETAL5. WEBER’S “SOZIAL” ACTION6. THE EARLY DEATH OF THE PROBLEM OF THE SOCIAL7. TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL – PART ONE: DURKHEIM, MARX, WEBER8. TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL – PART TWO: WHITEHEAD ON SOCIOLOGY, SOCIETIES AND THE SOCIAL
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According to some social theorists, we are ‘at the end of the social’. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by ‘the social’. ‘Rethinking the Social’ is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber. It examines how the concept of the social became unproblematic for twentieth-century writers and suggests that debates surrounding this concept remain very much alive. Building on A. N. Whitehead’s work, Halewood develops a novel ‘philosophy of the social’.
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