Politics, Sociology and Social Theory (eBook)

Anthony Giddens is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Preface.

Introduction.

1. Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber.

2. Marx, Weber and the Development of Capitalism.

3. Durkheim's Political Sociology.

4. Durkheim and the Question of Individualism.

5. Comte, Popper and Positivism.

6. 'Power' in the Writings of Talcott Parsons.

7. The Improbable Guru: Re-reading Marcuse.

8. Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and Hermeneutics.

9. Habermas on Labour and Interaction.

10. Foucault, Nietzsche and Marx.

Notes.

Index.

"In this generation no one has contributed more than he to both our
understanding of the history of social thought and the development
of social theory. The pieces republished in Politics, Sociology
and Social Theory are worth reading again, for they offer
critically informed engagements with diverse figures from the
history of social theory." Times Higher Education Supplement

"A valuable collection of papers ... Giddens's own work is a
striking exception to the sterility of post-socialist social
thought. The present volume shows Giddens at his refreshingly
iconoclastic best ... These are all profoundly instructive
contributions, which confirm Giddens's standing as the pre-eminent
social theorist of his generation." John Gray, Times Literary
Supplement