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Classical and Contemporary Social Theory


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Classical and Contemporary Social Theory publishes rigorous scholarly work that re-discovers the relevance of social theory for contemporary times, demonstrating the enduring importance of theory for modern social issues. The series covers social theory in a broad sense, inviting contributions on both 'classical' and modern theory, thus encompassing sociology, without being confined to a single discipline. As such, work from across the social sciences is welcome, provided that volumes address the social context of particular issues, subjects, or figures and offer new understandings of social reality and the contribution of a theorist or school to our understanding of it. The series considers significant new appraisals of established thinkers or schools, comparative works or contributions that discuss a particular social issue or phenomenon in relation to the work of specific theorists or theoretical approaches. Contributions are welcome that assess broad strands of thought within certain schools or across the work of a number of thinkers, but always with an eye toward contributing to contemporary understandings of social issues and contexts.

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Dark Emotions Difficult Emotional Experiences in Social and Everyday Life

Dark Emotions: Difficult Emotional Experiences in Social and Everyday Life

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen
August 16, 2024

Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ’negative’, ’disturbing’ or ’dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ’positive’, pleasant’ or ’light’. Each chapter in the book is devoted to introducing different ‘dark emotions’ such as ...

Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities On the Centenary of Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities: On the Centenary of Argonauts of the Western Pacific

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Grażyna Kubica, Dariusz Brzeziński
June 14, 2024

As one of the most renowned figures in the history of anthropology, Bronisław Malinowski is recognised as having been central to the development of the discipline, with interpretations of his thought usually drawing attention to his work in founding the approach of functionalism and his innovative ...

A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport Disenchantment and Salvation

A Weberian Perspective on Home, Nature and Sport: Disenchantment and Salvation

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By Michael Symonds
June 03, 2024

This book extends Max Weber’s theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to Weber’s own list of five spheres (economic, scientific/intellectual, political/legal, erotic and aesthetic) yields original insights into these ...

Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process

Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process

1st Edition

By André Oliveira Costa
December 05, 2023

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias’ theory of the civilizing process – an influence acknowledged by Elias himself – conducting a dialogue with a view to analyzing points of contact and distance between them. Examining the development of Elias’ work, it ...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Contributions to Modern Social Theory A Centennial Appraisal

Vilfredo Pareto’s Contributions to Modern Social Theory: A Centennial Appraisal

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Adair-Toteff
October 02, 2023

This volume seeks to restore Vilfredo Pareto to his rightful place in the history of social and economic thought, bringing together studies by leading scholars to mark the centenary of his death in 1923. Assessing Pareto’s many contributions to the social sciences and his unique integration of the ...

Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions

Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions

1st Edition

Edited By Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzeziński
September 25, 2023

Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across ...

Simmel and Beyond The Contemporary Relevance of Simmel’s Thought

Simmel and Beyond: The Contemporary Relevance of Simmel’s Thought

1st Edition

Edited By Pedro Caetano, Maria Manuela Mendes
September 25, 2023

Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe, this book shows how Simmel's categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and further shed light on trends characteristic of global modernity. Thematically organised around the major societal challenges currently faced by developed...

Temporal Politics and Banal Culture Before the Future

Temporal Politics and Banal Culture: Before the Future

1st Edition

By Peter Conlin
September 25, 2023

This book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal experience as a way to expand political imaginations. In the aftermath of the modern myth of progress, it argues we have entered into a kind of dystopia—brutal or ...

Exploring Emotions in Social Life

Exploring Emotions in Social Life

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen
August 18, 2023

This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy, it examines emotions including desire, empathy, freedom, happiness, hate, disgust, ...

Post-Philosophical Sociology Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge

Post-Philosophical Sociology: Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge

1st Edition

By Richard Kilminster
July 31, 2023

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of ...

The Concept of Tragedy Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times

The Concept of Tragedy: Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times

1st Edition

By Sam Han
April 03, 2023

Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable. Climate change, refugee crises, and global pandemics seem to demonstrate the limits of human reason, science, and technology. In light of this, the terms "tragedy" and "tragic" have come into greater use. What does ...

True Believers and the Great Replacement Understanding Anomie and Alienation

True Believers and the Great Replacement: Understanding Anomie and Alienation

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By Alf H. Walle
March 28, 2023

True Believers and the Great Replacement explores the responses of segments of Western cultures who fear that changes in the racial, religious, and ethnic makeup of society threaten their way of life. The Great Replacement Theory (that suggests that the traditional character of Western society is ...

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