Emancipation and History : The Return of Social Theory.

Intro -- Emancipation and History: The Return of Social Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Vicissitudes and Possibilities of Critical Theory Today -- Defining Critical Theory -- Contemporary Modernity -- Renewing Critique -- 2 Global Modernity: Levels of Analysis and Conceptual Strategies -- Introduction -- Levels of Analysis -- Descriptions -- Middle-range Analytical Concepts -- General Analytical Concepts -- A Trend-concept: Secularization -- Conclusion -- 3 Existential Social Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernity -- The Problem -- Existential Social Questions -- Existential Questions, Developmental Trends and Modernizing Moves -- Final Words -- 4 History, Sociology and Modernity -- Introduction -- Historical Sociology and Sociological Theory -- Theory and Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- 5 Realism, Trend-concepts and the Modern State -- Introduction -- Beyond Empiricism (and Critical Realism) -- The Modern State and Modern Society -- Collective Subjectivity, Mechanisms, Modernization -- Final Words -- 6 Family, Modernization and Sociological Theory -- Two Intertwined Themes -- Globalization and Modernization -- The Family, the 'Dimensions' of Social Life and the 'Existential Questions' -- Conclusion -- 7 The Basic Forms of Social Interaction -- Introduction -- Principles of Organization, Mechanisms of Coordination -- Principles of Antagonism, Mechanisms of Opposition -- Coordination, Antagonism -- Interactive Inclinations -- Bases of Justification -- Conclusion -- 8 The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity: The Trajectory of Peronism -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Historical Peronism -- The Argentina of Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner -- The Imaginary and Politics in Modernity -- 9 Critical Social Theory and Developmental Trends, Emancipation and Late Communism -- Introduction.

Capitalism, Accumulation and Communism -- Contemporary Alternatives -- Tasks of Critical Theory - or Late Twentieth Century Communism -- References -- Index.

Assessing critical theory today, this book focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centering on trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it. To achieve its goal, it returns to abandoned issues in social and sociological theory.

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