Post-Philosophical Sociology

Post-Philosophical Sociology

Richard Kilminster

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2023
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Teoría social
ISBN:
9781032045252

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In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

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