{"product_id":"theorizing-modernity-inescapability-and-attainability-in-social-theory-9780761951469","title":"Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory","description":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Wagner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.38w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761951469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWagner, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40121840500851,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e30b44f0-4b95-469d-9013-cb0d9e235727.jpg?v=1653748943","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/theorizing-modernity-inescapability-and-attainability-in-social-theory-9780761951469","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}