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Informationen zum Autor Mike Gane is Professor of Sociology at University of Loughborough Klappentext This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles: positivist, anthropological and Marxist; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts. Zusammenfassung This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles: positivist! anthropological and Marxist; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: FIRST CYCLE: 1800-1880 THE BIRTH SOCIAL THEORY: ALTRUISM The Post-revolutionary Void Sacrificial Theory and the Sociology of Modernity Theory in Crisis Religion and the Subjective End of the First Cycle Scholasticism PART TWO: SECOND CYCLE: 1880-1940 THE REBIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: ANOMIE Social Theory Reborn French Society Vanguard without a Norm Method in Crisis and the Resort to Theory in Suicide End of the Second Cycle Anthropology and Religion PART THREE: THIRD CYCLE: 1940-2000 THE SECOND BIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: HYPERTELIA Existential Theory The Algerian War From Pathology to Normativity Structural Theory Radical Theory and the End of the Social Fin-de-Cycle Time of Counter-Strategies Conclusion Social Theory at the End of the Social
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PART ONE: FIRST CYCLE: 1800-1880
THE BIRTH SOCIAL THEORY: ALTRUISM
The Post-revolutionary Void
Sacrificial Theory and the Sociology of Modernity
Theory in Crisis
Religion and the Subjective
End of the First Cycle
Scholasticism
PART TWO: SECOND CYCLE: 1880-1940
THE REBIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: ANOMIE
Social Theory Reborn
French Society
Vanguard without a Norm
Method in Crisis and the Resort to Theory in Suicide
End of the Second Cycle
Anthropology and Religion
PART THREE: THIRD CYCLE: 1940-2000
THE SECOND BIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: HYPERTELIA
Existential Theory
The Algerian War
From Pathology to Normativity
Structural Theory
Radical Theory and the End of the Social
Fin-de-Cycle
Time of Counter-Strategies
Conclusion
Social Theory at the End of the Social
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"Gane provides a sweeping summary of some of the central themes in French social theory over the last two centuries as he traces French social theory from the birth of the "social" in Saint-Simonianism to the "social's" supposed demise in the recent writings of Jean Baudrillard. . . . overall he does a masterful job of weaving together social theory with French social and intellectual history."
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