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245	0	4	_aThe diversity of social theories _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Harry F. Dahms.
260			_aBingley, U.K. : _bEmerald, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xvii, 235 p.) : _bill.
490	1		_aCurrent perspectives in social theory, _x0278-1204 ; _vv. 29
505	0		_aIntroduction / Harry F. Dahms -- The epistemological fate of the authoritarian character studies of the Frankfurt School : a legacy for the study of racism, antisemitism, and fascism? / Helgard Kramer -- Charisma and critique : critical theory, authority, and the critique of political theology / David Norman Smith -- Trauma and the limits of redemptive critique : interrogating the haunting voices of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution / Karl P. Benziger, Richard R. Weiner -- The direction of contemporary critical theory : a response to Amy Allen's The politics of our selves / Colin Koopman -- Who are we and who do we want to be? : Amy Allen's The politics of our selves / Johanna Meehan -- Explaining the power of gendered subjectivity / Christopher F. Zurn -- Power, autonomy, and gender : reply to critics / Amy Allen -- Stranger to you and stranger to myself? : theorizing self-estrangement / Natalia Ruiz-Junco -- For pragmatic public sociology : theory and practice after the pragmatic turn / Eric Royal Lybeck -- Empire, global capitalism, and theory : reconsidering Hardt and Negri / Jeb Sprague -- Zizek's negative (positive) project or, negativity as positive possibility / Geoff Pfeifer.
520			_aSince the time when Talcott Parsons pursued the project of one overarching 'general theory of society', the landscape of social theory has vastly changed, and the pluralism and multidimensionality increased tremendously. Today, with so many different approaches in and to social theory, and multiple ways of defining and describing their relationship to and relevance for the social sciences, there has been a growing danger of diversity and pluralism tipping into fragmentation, making the prospect of social scientists and sociologists being able to communicate with the expectation of reaching some kind of understanding, ever less likely. This volume presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the present analytical and practical challenges (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the kind of roles social theorists may be playing in the future. These essays revisit the issue of common agenda (or lack thereof) in social theory and provide critical overviews by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory.
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700	1		_aDahms, Harry F.
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830		0	_aCurrent perspectives in social theory ; _vv. 29.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0278-1204(2011)29
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