Redefining the Situation: The Writings of Peter Mchugh - Couverture souple

McHugh, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773556931 ISBN 13 : 9780773556935

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Peter McHugh (1929–2010) was an internationally known sociologist within the field of anti-positivist social theory. As the only collection of McHugh's sole-authored writings, Redefining the Situation presents a comprehensive yet surprising view of this key theorist's influence in his field. Redefining the Situation is a compendium of McHugh's published and unpublished short-form writings, along with three new essays on McHugh's work, one by his long-time collaborator and friend Alan Blum. The collection contributes to the project of reinventing social theory by providing a new perspective from which to imaginatively rethink the development of sociology over the last fifty years. It locates McHugh's work not only within the modern and postmodern sociological tradition but also within contemporary social theory broadly, including hermeneutics, critical theory, deconstruction, and Hannah Arendt's political theory. The essays in this volume show the development of a method to analyze everyday behaviour in light of fundamental questions, exploring conflicts and connections between socialization and recidivism, fragmentation and ethnic cleansing, justice and affirmative action, teaching and university politics, and intimacy and aesthetics. This book moves beyond contemporary debates about big data/postmodernism, and along the way it identifies convergences in Anglo-American and Continental thought. By tracing the development of Analysis, the tradition of social inquiry, from its beginnings until today, Redefining the Situation re-establishes a prominent sociologist as one of the leading intellectuals in the field of interpretive social theory.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kieran Bonner is professor of sociology and legal studies at St Jerome’s University.

Stanley Raffel (1944-2018) was reader and fellow of sociology at the University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773556931
• ISBN 13: 9780773556935
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Bonner Kieran, Raffel Stanley
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