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451. Logological Investigations

     By Barry Sandwell

     These ground breaking volumes, the first in a series of ten, explore the similarities and differences between the discourses of reflection and reflexivity. Examining the role of reflexivity he traces the journey from its early expression though classical and Greek philosophy, drama and poetry to...

     Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
452. Reflexivity And The Crisis of Western Reason

     Logological Investigations: Volume One

     By Barry Sandywell

     This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical thought. Brilliantly organised and abounding...

     Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
453. Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse c. 600-450 B.C.

     Logological Investigations: Volume Three

     By Barry Sandywell

     In this third Volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to pre-Socratic philosophy and science and their socio-political context....

     Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
454. Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society

     By Paul A. B. Clarke, Andrew Linzey

     This Dictionary provides a unique and groundbreaking survey of both the historical and contemporary interrelations between ethics, theology and society. In over 250 separately-authored entries, a selection of the world's leading scholars from many disciplines and many denominations present their...

     Published December 13th 1995 by Routledge
455. Ernst Bloch

     By Vincent Geoghegan

     Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest of writers to read his full...

     Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
456. Reason, Truth and Self

     The Postmodern Reconditioned

     By Michael Luntley

     Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore...

     Published October 18th 1995 by Routledge
457. Sociological Theory: What went Wrong?

     Diagnosis and Remedies

     By Nicos Mouzelis

     Social theory is open to many passing currents. Claims to originality tend to thrive and past achievements are often ignored. In Sociologiocal Theory: What Went Wrong? Mouzelis claims that "problems" currently being isolated are not really problems, and that "achievements" claimed are little more...

     Published July 19th 1995 by Routledge
458. Consuming Places

     By JOHN Urry

     Series: International Library of Sociology

     John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the...

     Published March 8th 1995 by Routledge
459. Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity

     Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology

     By Harvie Ferguson

     The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings....

     Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge
460. The Frankfurt School

     Critical Assessments

     Edited by Jay M. Bernstein

     Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists

     This set of six volumes provide a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. In particular the work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed...

     Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge