A genealogical history of society
This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity. The concept has exerted consid...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cham, Switzerland
Springer
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Springer briefs in sociology
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity. The concept has exerted considerable influence over the last two centuries, during which time many people have conceived themselves and behave as members of a society, and social scientists have explained human subjectivities and conducts as social effects. For both groups, society exists as a very real phenomenon. Historical inquiry shows, however, that the modern concept of society is no more than a historically contingent way of imagining and making sense of the human world |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) |
| Beschreibung: | v, 106 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 3319704362 3-319-70436-2 9783319704364 978-3-319-70436-4 |