Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory - Couverture souple

Callinicos, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1608460207 ISBN 13 : 9781608460205

Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2009

Synopsis

Making History is about the complex interaction between human agency and social structures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The problem of historical change has come to assume central importance among English-speaking social scientists in the past ten to 15 years. Much attention has been focused on how we relate institutions and institutional change to actions, and how we think of history as the outcome of this process. This book takes a fresh look at both Marxist and non-Marxist positions in this debate, examining in detail the work of Hobsbawm, Thompson, Cohen, Althusser, Giddens and Habermas amongst others. The author argues that both functionalism and methodological individualism, and the various attempts to reconcile these extremes, are untenable. Drawing on classical Marxism, analytical philosophy and recent historical work, he has produced a contribution to the debate, which could affect profoundly its terms in the future. The work is aimed at undergraduates and graduates in social and political theory, sociology, politics and Marxist theory.

Biographie de l'auteur

Alex Callinicos, D.Phil. (1979) in Philosophy, University of Oxford, is Professor of Politics at the University of York (UK). He has written widely about Marxism and social theory. His most recent books are Social Theory (1999), Equality (2000), Against the Third Way (2001) and An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), all published by Polity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haymarket Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1608460207
• ISBN 13: 9781608460205
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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• Personne responsable: non disponible