Beyond the Enlightenment Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

Subjects:

• Sociology » Sociology (General)
• Philosophy » Philosophy (General)

Reviews:

• [R]eaders will find nuggets of new or unfamiliar information about many contemporary theorists. The book can serve as a handy reference tool for professors and as a concise introduction to the history of modern social thought for students. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
  —Choice March 2005

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Enlightenment and Beyond
• Georg Hegel: Foundations of Modern Social Thought
• Auguste Comte: The Origins of Modern European Sociology
• Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest
• Harriet Marineau: Feminist Sociologist
• Karl Marx: Capitalism and Human Exploitation
• Emile Durkheim: The Eclipse of Community
• Max Weber: Reason and Bureaucracy
• Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Civilization
• Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
• Georg Simmel: Sociologists as Outsider
• W.E.B. Du Bois: The Double Consciousness of Race
• Antonio Gramsci: Critique of Hegemonic Capitalism
• Adorno and Horkheimer: The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory
• Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
• Walter Benjamin: Art and Modernity
• Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
• Simone de Beauvoir: Otherness
• Hannah Arendt: Banality of Reason
• Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology
• Frantz Fanon: Race and Postcolonialism
• Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault: Structuralism and Beyond: Poststructuralism
• Talcott Parsons: The Systems Society
• Erving Goffman: The Drama of the Self
• Nancy Chodorow, Judith Butler, and Bell Hooks: Feminist Social Theory
• Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, Zygmunt Bauman: Postmodernism
• Jurgen Habermas: Communicative Action
• Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus
• Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory