Emancipation and History - The Return of Social Theory

Assessing critical theory today, this book focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. To achieve its goal, it returns to abandoned issues in social and sociological theory.

About the author

José Maurício Domingues, PhD in sociology (LSE), professor at IESP-UERJ, Brazil, author of Global Modernity, Development, and Global Civilization (Routledge, 2012), Latin America and Contemporary Modernity (Routledge, 2018), Modernity Reconstructed (University of Wales Press, 2006), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (Macmillan/Saint Martin's Press, 2000) and Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (MacMillan/Saint Martin's Press, 1995).

Product details

• Authors: José Maurício Domingues
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2017
• EAN: 9789004348752
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34875-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sci
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics