Thinking the unthinkable : the riddles of classical social theories / Charles Lemert.
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder :
Paradigm Publishers,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 195 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- What is social theory? total destruction, bead lust, and other unreasonable social things
- The impossible reasons of modern civilizations
- Social theory and modernity's unthinkable
- Social violence as the bead lust of the unthinkable
- Five ways to skin a cat: modernity's five riddles
- Unthinkable social things : five solutions to the riddle of the defiant darkness, 1848-1914
- Light and dark
- Revolutionary reasons: Karl Marx and the melting pot of solid modernity
- Rationality's double-bind: Max Weber and modernity's threat to the human spirit
- The reasonable hope of a social bond: Émile Durkheim and modern man's trouble with conflict
- Riddles and realities
- Perverse reasons: Sigmund Freud and the discontents of conscious life
- Unreasonable differences: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the logic of the feminist standpoint
- The exiled others think the unthinkable: the classic solutions encounter differences and possibilities
- Unthinkable variations on the classic riddles: W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Georg Simmel, and Ferdinand de Saussure
- Beyond the double-bind: W.E.B. du Bois and the gift of second-sight
- A revolutionary social bond: Anna Julia Cooper and the colored woman's office
- The strange social benefits of conflict: Georg Simmel and modern wandering
- The social structure of meanings: Ferdinand de Saussure and the arbitrary sign
- Violence, war, and the short twentieth century, 1914-1991
- The unfolding of social theory in the unraveling of the twentieth century into the twenty-first
- Bibliographic essay and other acknowledgments
- Index
- About the author.