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.
©2017
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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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Vicissitudes and Possibilities of Critical Theory Today
  • Global Modernity: Levels of Analysis and Conceptual Strategies
  • Existential Social Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernity
  • History, Sociology and Modernity
  • Realism, Trend-concepts and the Modern State
  • Family, Modernization and Sociological Theory
  • The Basic Forms of Social Interaction
  • The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity: The Trajectory of Peronism
  • Critical Social Theory and Developmental Trends, Emancipation and Late Communism.