2006, ISBN: 9781589661196

University of Chicago Press, May 2006. Paper Back. New. We can recommend this book, and highly. Its bulk is taken up by an analysis of the main lines of American social sciences in the … Altro …

University of Chicago Press, May 2006. Paper Back. New. We can recommend this book, and highly. Its bulk is taken up by an analysis of the main lines of American social sciences in the century past, a narrative shaped by theorists such as Thorstein Veblen (<i>A Theory of the Leisure Class</i>), Robert and Helen Lynd (<i>Middletown</i>), John Dewey, and C. Wright Mills (<i>The Power Elite</i>). You may be only obliquely familiar with these thinkers as sources cited in footnotes and bibliographies, but be patient: Shannon carefully reads them as part of the ongoing modern project positing a theory of culture and human goods based on Enlightenment assumptions, of reason cut free from pre-modern forms of tradition. By the end of the period under discussion, about 1960 (C. Wright Mills was already naming it 'post-modern') social theorists seemed to be suffocating in a fecund but chaotic mass of theory and counter-theory. Here Shannon steps in with his own proposition, and makes explicit his own Roman Catholic convictions and the influence of Christopher Lasch and Hannah Arendt: the only way out of chaos is to speak of a return to a traditional understanding of human cultures as dependent upon a transcendent, divine order that gives nature meaning and that 'humbly' admits a dimension of necessity, to a modern American culture that exalts unlimited freedom and rejects constraint. I promise: a book that begins as tough sledding concludes with unmistakable clarity (<i>Books and Culture</i> reviewer Eric Miller calls it 'brave') outlining an important and compelling prescription for authentic cultural renewal., University of Chicago Press, 6<

2006, ISBN: 1589661192

[EAN: 9781589661196], Neubuch, [PU: University of Chicago Press May 2006], MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, SOCIOLOGY, We can recommend this book, and highly. Its bulk is taken up by an analysis… Altro …

[EAN: 9781589661196], Neubuch, [PU: University of Chicago Press May 2006], MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, SOCIOLOGY, We can recommend this book, and highly. Its bulk is taken up by an analysis of the main lines of American social sciences in the century past, a narrative shaped by theorists such as Thorstein Veblen (A Theory of the Leisure Class), Robert and Helen Lynd (Middletown), John Dewey, and C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite). You may be only obliquely familiar with these thinkers as sources cited in footnotes and bibliographies, but be patient: Shannon carefully reads them as part of the ongoing modern project positing a theory of culture and human goods based on Enlightenment assumptions, of reason cut free from pre-modern forms of tradition. By the end of the period under discussion, about 1960 (C. Wright Mills was already naming it 'post-modern') social theorists seemed to be suffocating in a fecund but chaotic mass of theory and counter-theory. Here Shannon steps in with his own proposition, and makes explicit his own Roman Catholic convictions and the influence of Christopher Lasch and Hannah Arendt: the only way out of chaos is to speak of a return to a traditional understanding of human cultures as dependent upon a transcendent, divine order that gives nature meaning and that 'humbly' admits a dimension of necessity, to a modern American culture that exalts unlimited freedom and rejects constraint. I promise: a book that begins as tough sledding concludes with unmistakable clarity (Books and Culture reviewer Eric Miller calls it 'brave') outlining an important and compelling prescription for authentic cultural renewal., Books<

2007, ISBN: 9781589661196

Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought, Revised Edition, Buch, Softcover, [PU: University of Scranton Press,U.S.], University of Scranton Press,U.S., 2007