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Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals) An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination
By Zygmunt Bauman
Copyright 1976
126 Pages
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Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
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Routledge
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For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the ‘nature-like’ character of society – and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. In this powerful and engaging work, first published in 1976, Professor Bauman outlines the historical roots of such a science and describes how the new trends in sociology emerging from phenomenology and... Read more
Part 1: The Science of Unfreedom 1. Second nature’ Defined 2. ‘Second nature’ Deified 3. ‘Second Nature’ and the Commonsense Part 2: Critique of Sociology 4. The Husserlian Revolution 5. The Existentialist Restoration 6. ‘Second Nature’ Vindicated Part 3: Critique of Unfreedom 7. Technical and Emancipatory Reason 8. ‘Second Nature’ Seen Historically 9. Can Critical Sociology be a Science? 10.Truth and Authentication.
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Bauman, Zygmunt
