Thinking the Unthinkable The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

Name: Thinking the Unthinkable The Riddles of Classical Social Theories
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ISBN: 9781594511868

ISBN-10: 1594511861

ISBN-13: 9781594511868

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles C. Lemert

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In the eloquent style for which he has become famous, Charles Lemert writes of social theory as no one else. Thinking the Unthinkable is offered as text for instruction, yet it defies the prevailing assumption that social theory is a method for clarifying the facts of social life. Lemert shows how social theory began late in the 19th century as a struggle to come to terms with the failure of modern reason to solve the social problems created by the capitalist world-system. Since then, social theory has developed through twists and turns to think and rethink this Unthinkable. Hence the surprising innovations of recent years - postmodern, queer, postcolonial, third-wave feminist, risk…

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.30" wide x 11.97" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638



Preface



What is Social Theory?: Total Destruction, Bead Lust, and Other Unreasonable Social Things



The Impossible Reasons of Modern Civilizations



Social Theory and Modernity's Unthinkable



Social Violence as the Bead Lust of the Unthinkable



Five Ways to Skin a Cat: Modernity's Five Riddles



Unthinkable Social Things: Five Solutions to the Riddle of the Defiant Darkness, 1848-1914


Light and Dark



Revolutionary Reasons: Karl Marx and the Melting of Solid Modernity



Rationality's Double-Bind: Max Weber and Modernity's Threat to the Human Spirit



The Reasonable Hope of a Social Bond: Emile Durkheim and Modern Man's Trouble with Conflict


Riddles and Realities



Perverse Reasons: Sigmund Freud and the Discontents of Conscious Life



Unreasonable Differences: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Logic of the Feminist Standpoint



The Exiled Others Think the Unthinkable: The Classic Solutions Encounter Differences and Possibilities


Unthinkable Variations on the Classic Riddles: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Georg Simmel, and Ferdinand de Saussure



Beyond the Double-Bind: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Gift of Second-Sight



A Revolutionary Social Bond: Anna Julia Cooper and the Colored Woman's Office



The Strange Social Benefits of Conflict: Georg Simmel and Modern Wandering



The Social Structure of Meanings: Ferdinand de Saussure and the Arbitrary Sign


Violence, War, and the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991



The Unfolding of Social Theory in the Unraveling of the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First


Bibliographic Essay and Other Acknowledgments


Index


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