Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent, and Revolution
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Author(s)Timothy W. Luke
PublisherSAGE Publications, Inc
ISBN / ASIN0803938616
ISBN-139780803938618
Sales Rank4,878,166
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Social Theory and Modernity combines the analytical techniques of political theory and comparative politics as a method for conducting innovative inquiry and research in political science. The focus of political theory, for example, results in new issues for historical and cross-national comparative analysis - whereas comparative analysis provides new parameters 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 theory of critique and revolution and Foucault's system of political and social analysis. The book concludes by offering