Fin de Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason

ISBN-13: 9781859840917 / Angielski

Jeffrey Alexander

Opis

In four interwoven studies, the book identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory, and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siecle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the 20th century, when war, revolution and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason.