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1 online resource (237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Current Perspectives in Social Theory Ser. ; v. 36
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Current Perspectives in Social Theory Ser.
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Front Cover; The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Notes; References; Part I. Identifying the Challenge: A Critical Discussion of the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical ... ; History, Critique, and Progress: Amy Allen's "End of Progress" and the Normative Grounding of Critical Theory; History and Normativity; The Entanglement of Reason and Power; Problematizing Genealogy and Metanormative Contextualism; History, Critique, and Mediation; Bibliography |
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Inheriting Critical Theory: A Review of Amy Allen's the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical ... Questions and Critiques; Conclusion; Notes; References; Back to Adorno: Critical Theory's Problem of Normative Grounding; Notes; References; Decolonizing Critical Theory; Progress-thinking as Symptomatic; The Displacement of Critique; Experiments in Critical Theory; Totaling Up the Damage; Notes; References; Progress, Normativity, and the "Decolonization" of Critical Theory: Reply to Critics; Notes; References |
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Part II. Assessing the Challenge: Progress, Politics, and IdeologyNietzsche after Charlottesville; Nietzsche's Declinist Theory of Western Culture; Nietzsche Contra Nationalism and Antisemitism; After Charlottesville: Nietzsche and Beyond; Notes; References; "How Can [We] Not Know?" Blade Runner as Cinematic Landmark in Critical Thought; Themes Critical-Philosophical; To Be Human; The Relation of Deckard and Rachael; A Concluding Thought; Postscript (November 2017); Notes; References; Sociology at the End of History: Profession, Vocation and Critical Practice; Introduction |
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Sociology as a ProfessionSociology as Vocation; Sociology as Critical Practice; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part III. Confronting the Challenge: The Dynamics of Progress in the Modern Age; Las Vegas as the Anthropocene: The Neoliberal City as Desertification All the Way Down; Desertification and Development; Desertifying an Arid Place All the Way Down; Degradation as Desertification; Development as Desertification; Destruction as Desertification; Devastation as Desertification; Environmentality/Entertainmentality as Urban Ecology; Conclusions; References |
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Exchanging Social Change for Social Class: Traditional Marriage Proposals as Status and ScripThe Persistence of Traditional Marriage Proposals; Proposal Stories in Consumer Society; Methods; Exchanging Gender-normative Relations for Socioeconomic Status: Marital Status and Social Stigma; Social Status and Romantic Consumption; Traditional Proposal Stories as Scrip; Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Sociology's Emancipation from Philosophy: The Influence of Francis Bacon on Émile Durkheim; Introduction; Against Abstract Speculation; Against Practical Prenotions |
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Against Epistemological Domination |
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Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of ""progress""? |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Progress.
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Progress. |
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Social change.
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Social change. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
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globalism. |
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Sociology. |
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Social Science -- Sociology -- General. |
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Print version: Dahms, Harry F. Challenge of Progress : Theory Between Critique and Ideology. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2019 9781787145726 |
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1787149803 |
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9781787149809 (electronic book) |
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9781787145719 (PDF ebook) |
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1787145719 |
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9781787145726 (hardback) |
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