Society, Action and Space

ISBN-13: 9780415069663 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str.

Benno Werlen;Werlen Benno

Opis

Society, Action and Space questions the relevance of space for the social world. It focuses upon issues which are at the centre of important debates in human/social geography. Over recent years one of the most significant developments in social analysis has been the increasing interchange between geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and social philosophers concerning the spatial. This debate involves the work of Giddens, Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, Harvey, Gregory, Soja and many others. As a result of these new developments a whole series of new forms of empirical work as well as theoretical innovations have come into being. Spatial considerations are no longer confined to the area of geography, rather they are now seen as fundamental to all forms of social theorizing, particularly in social conditions where spatially very distant events now effect everyone - under conditions of late modernity and globalization. The distinctiveness of this book is that it connects discussions in the philosophy of social science with theories of action which have direct relevance to concepts of space.

Recenzje

'... constructed from in-depth and scholarly discussions of eminent sources: Popper, Schutz, Pareto, Weber ...' - Environment and Planning

'... argues persuasively that the central object of social geography is action and not space.' - Environment and Planning

'The author, evidently, has a huge axe to grind.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Space and causality, or Whatever happened to the subject?; Chapter 2 The objective perspective; Chapter 3 The subjective standpoint; Chapter 4 An epistemological synthesis; Chapter 5 Social theories of action; Chapter 6 Geographical space and society; Chapter 7 The space of social theory; Chapter 8 The space of social action; Conclusions;

O autorze

Benno Werlen lectures in Geography at the University of Zurich.