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9780803938618 Academic Inspection Copy

Social Theory and Modernity

Critique, Dissent, and Revolution
  • ISBN-13: 9780803938618
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Timothy W. Luke
  • Price: AUD $233.00
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  • Local release date: 01/10/1990
  • Format: Paperback 278 pages Weight: 400g
  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]
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The author, Timothy Luke combines the analytical techniques of political theory and comparative politics as a method of innovative inquiry and research in political science. The focus of political theory presents new issues for historical and cross-national comparative analysis, whereas comparative analysis provides new parameters in political theory for analyzing the ideology of social institutions. Luke elaborates upon Rousseau's discursive style and critical methods, Marx's historical materialism, Marcuse's instrumental rationality, Weber's interpretive method, Gramsci's theoretical tactics, Cabral's theories of critique and revolution, and Foucault's system of political and social analysis. The book concludes by offering an analysis of the moral and ideological influence of behaviour and the link between ideology and political economy, especially in modern society.
PART ONE: MARXOLOGIES: CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY AND MODERNITY Introduction and Overview PART TWO: TECHNOLOGY, TECHNIQUE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION On Techno-Power Technics and Marx's Materialist Conception of History Technique in Marx's Method of Political Economy Gramsci and Revolution On the Theory of Workers' Councils and the Working Class Party PART THREE: INSTRUMENTAL REASON AND POPULAR REVOLUTION The Dialectics of Social Critique in Rousseau On Nature and Society A Phenomenological/Freudian Marxism? Marcuse's Critique of Advanced Industrial Society After One-Dimensionality Culture and Politics in the Age of Artificial Negativity PART FOUR: POWER, DISCOURSE AND CULTURE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Cabral's Marxism An African Strategy for Socialist Development Discourses of Modernization and Development Theory and Doctrine After 1945 Foucault and the Discourses of Power Developing a Genealogy of the Political Culture Concept
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