Overview

Franco Ferrarotti offers a series of profiles on sociology's most important classical social and political thinkers, covering eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers and concluding with the American economist Thorstein Veblen. This is a general introduction to the history of modern social thought as well as a study of each of these thinkers within his social and historical context. It is also an interpretation of them from a distinctly European social and philosophical perspective, treating as major thinkers some, such as Ferguson and Veblen, who are not typically included in the canon of classical social thinkers. Ferrarotti hopes to reinvigorate interest in classical theoretical concerns and to spark a discussion about the important legacy that sociology brings to bear on our understanding of human social action.

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Author:   Franco Ferrarotti
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780739105085

ISBN 10:   0739105086
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   04 February 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Adam Ferguson: The Theory of ""Civil Society"" Chapter 3 Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon: The Organic Nature of Society and the Possibility of Planning the Social Process Chapter 4 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Dynamics of the Social System Chapter 5 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Justice as the Basis of Human Coexistence Chapter 6 Emile Durkheim: The Problem of Lost Solidarity Chapter 7 Max Weber: The Orphan of Bismarck and the Crisis of European Society Chapter 8 Georg Simmel: The Forms of Social Relations and Objectified Spirit Chapter 9 Gabriel Tarde: Society as Mimetic Process Chapter 10 Richard H. Tawney: The Search for the Doctrinal Foundation of ""Labor"" Socialism Chapter 11 Werner Sombart: Genesis, Characteristics, and Contradictions of Modern Capitalism Chapter 12 Vilfredo Pareto: The Disenchanted World of Conservative Pessimism Chapter 13 Thorstein Veblen: Radical Critic of Business Culture"

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Franco Ferrarotti is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Doctoral Program at the University of Rome. He is the editor of La Critica Sociologica.

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