Discourse and knowledge : the making of Enlightenment sociology
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Discourse and knowledge : the making of Enlightenment sociology
（Studies in social and political thought）
Liverpool University Press, c2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-329) and indexes
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Description
By closely analysing the contributions of such theorists as More, Hobbes, Vico, Montesquieu, Ferguson and Millar to the emergence of sociology in its original form, Piet Strydom follows the discursive construction of sociology in the context of the society-wide early modern practical discourse about violence and rights. Parallels with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourse on poverty and justice and the contemporary discourse of risk and responsibility allow the author to reflect not only on the generation of knowledge through discourse but also on the role that sociology itself plays in this process.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction: Discourse and Sociology
Part I: Theory of Discourse and Discourse Analysis
Introduction: From Presentism and Historicism to Discourse
2. Theory of Discourse
3. Sociological Theory of Discourse
4. Discourse of Modernity
5. Sociological Discourse Analysis
Part II: Discourse of Modernity and the Construction of Sociology
Introduction: Crisis Discourse and Sociology
6. The Early Modern Problem of Violence
7. The Rights Discourse
8. Contributions to Enlightenment Sociology
9. Discursive Construction of Enlightenment Sociology
10. Crisis and Critique: The Relation between Social and
Political Theory
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
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