The Unmasking Style in Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138091757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 174 str.

Peter Baehr

Opis

This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements, and in popular culture, charting the intellectual origins of unmasking, its shifting priorities, and its specific techniques in social theory.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Elements and Origins of the Unmasking Style  1. Elements of Unmasking  2. Unveiling Religion, Unmasking Society  3. The Marxian Template  4. Illusion More Closely Considered  Part 2: O, Sociology  5. Unmasking in Sociology: For, Against, For and Against, Maybe  6. Humanism and Pragmatism: Unmasking, Debunking, and Unveiling in the Sociology of Peter Berger and Luc Boltanski  Part 3: Avoiding Unmasking in an Unmasking Age  7. Avoiding Unmasking  Appendix – Disclosing, Enclosing, Surveilling  References  Index

O autorze

Peter Baehr is Research Professor in Social Theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of several books, among them Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World; Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences; and Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage.