Critical and effective histories : Foucault's methods and historical sociology / Mitchell Dean.

By:

Dean, Mitchell, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203315014
9780203315019
0203414217
9780203414217
0203722450
9780203722459
1280104341
9781280104343

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical and effective histories.DDC classification:

301/.0722 20

LOC classification:

HM104 .D43 1994eb

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Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociology, Foucault, and the uses of history; Presentist perspectives; Questions of enlightenment; Weber, rationality, and the subject; A 'specific and peculiar rationalism'? Beyond the rationalisation thesis; Absent history and enlightenment dialectics; Habermas' modernist translations; Thematics of state and power; Governmentality; and practices of the self; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Critical and Effective Histories contrasts Foucault's methodologies with central currents in social theory and philosophy. It provides a guide to doing historical sociology, and an original position on the condition of social science today.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-232) and index.

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Critical and Effective Histories contrasts Foucault's methodologies with central currents in social theory and philosophy. It provides a guide to doing historical sociology, and an original position on the condition of social science today.

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