Emancipation and History

The Return of Social Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34875-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 114, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Domingues, José Maurício

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Vicissitudes and possibilities of critical theory today
Defining critical theory
Contemporary modernity
Renewing critique

Chapter 2 – Global modernity: levels of analysis and conceptual strategies
Introduction
Levels of analysis
Descriptions
Middle-range analytical concepts
General analytical concepts
A trend-concept: secularization
Conclusion

Chapter 3 – Existential social questions, developmental trends and modernity
The problem
Existential social questions
Existential questions, developmental trends and modernizing moves
Final words

Chapter 4 – History, sociology and modernity
Introduction
Historical sociology and sociological theory
Theory and mechanisms
Conclusion

Chapter 5 – Realism, trend-concepts and the modern state
Introduction
Beyond empiricism (and critical realism)
The modern state and modern society
Collective subjectivity, mechanisms, modernization
Final words

Chapter 6 – Family, modernization and sociological theory
Two intertwined themes
Globalization and modernization
The family, the “dimensions” of social life and the “existential questions”
Conclusion

Chapter 7 – The basic forms of social interaction
Introduction
Principles of organization, mechanisms of coordination
Principles of antagonism, mechanisms of opposition
Coordination, antagonism
Interactive inclinations
Bases of justification
Conclusion

Chapter 8 – The imaginary and politics in modernity: the trajectory of Peronism
Introduction
Theoretical background
Historical Peronism
The Argentina of Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner
The imaginary and politics in modernity

Chapter 9 – Critical social theory and developmental trends, emancipation and late communism
Introduction
Capitalism, accumulation and communism
Contemporary alternatives
Tasks of critical theory – or late twentieth century communism

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

José Maurício Domingues, PhD in sociology (LSE), professor at IESP-UERJ, Brazil, author of Global Modernity, Development, and Global Civilization (Routledge, 2012), Latin America and Contemporary Modernity (Routledge, 2018), Modernity Reconstructed (University of Wales Press, 2006), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (Macmillan/Saint Martin's Press, 2000) and Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (MacMillan/Saint Martin's Press, 1995).