Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory

This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of the past, and the transparency of the future. The book demonstrates how these questions are addressed in different forms and by different intellectua

Author: Peter Wagner
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 03/20/2001
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.38w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780761951469

About the Author
Wagner, Peter: - Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence

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