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Author Dean, Mitchell, 1955-

Title Critical and effective histories : Foucault's methods and historical sociology / Mitchell Dean
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociology, Foucault, and the uses of history; Presentist perspectives; Questions of enlightenment; Weber, rationality, and the subject; A 'specific and peculiar rationalism'? Beyond the rationalisation thesis; Absent history and enlightenment dialectics; Habermas' modernist translations; Thematics of state and power; Governmentality; and practices of the self; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Critical and Effective Histories contrasts Foucault's methodologies with central currents in social theory and philosophy. It provides a guide to doing historical sociology, and an original position on the condition of social science today
Analysis Sociology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-232) and index
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Subject Foucault, Michel
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Foucault, Michel. larpcal
Subject Historical sociology.
historical sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Historical sociology
Sociologia (filosofia e teoria)
Foucault, michel.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203315014
9780203315019
0203414217
9780203414217
0203722450
9780203722459
1280104341
9781280104343