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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Quentin Skinner |
ISBN: | 0521398339 9780521398336 |
OCLC Number: | 21332530 |
Description: | viii, 215 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: the return of Grand Theory / by Quentin Skinner -- Hans-Georg Gadamer / by William Outhwaite -- Jacques Derrida / by David Hoy -- Michel Foucault / by Mark Philp -- Thomas Kuhn / by Barry Barnes -- John Rawls / by Alan Ryan -- Jurgen Habermas / by Anthony Giddens -- Louis Althusser / by Susan James -- Claude Levi-Strauss / by James Boon -- The Annales historians / by Stuart Clark. |
Responsibility: | edited by Quentin Skinner. |
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'... lucid and stimulating introduction ... a vivid panorama.' John Dunn, New Society 'All the essays are of a high quality, written by respected authorities. All are analytically sound and critically challenging.' Theory, Culture and Society '... the volume provides an excellent introduction to some of the most important themes in contemporary social and political theory'. Contemporary Sociology Read more...
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