Dialectics in social thought : the present crisis / Geoffrey R. Skoll.

"Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and Sartre; and current contributors like Badio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skoll, Geoffrey R., 1948- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Physical Description:xiii, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: dialectics and social thought
  • Marx and the dialectic of capital
  • Freud and the dialectic of psychology
  • Peirce, Mead, Goffman, and interactional social science
  • Culture and society
  • Critical theories
  • Rebellion
  • The phenomenologists
  • Contemporary social thought: Agamben to Žižek
  • Dialectics of contemporary society and the present crisis
  • Bibliography
  • Index.