Emancipation and history : the return of social theory / / by Jose Mauricio Domingues.

Assessing critical theory today, José Maurício Domingues’ Emancipation and History focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. Classical and contemporary sociology and social theory are mobilized to recover a...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 114
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 114.
Physical Description:1 online resource (183 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
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Summary:Assessing critical theory today, José Maurício Domingues’ Emancipation and History focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. Classical and contemporary sociology and social theory are mobilized to recover a robust theory capable of going beyond recurrent empirical, and therefore weaker, perspectives in emancipatory thought. Collective subjectivity and social creativity, history and sociology, analytical concepts and trend-concepts, social existential questions, the role of equal freedom and of immanent critique, secularization, capitalism, the modern state, 'populism', the family and the meaning of citizenship, Marx, Weber, Bhaskar, Habermas, Laclau, Sousa Santos and Negri are topics and authors that stand out in the book.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004353550
ISSN:1573-4234 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: by Jose Mauricio Domingues.