Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521337212)

Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century onwards. Hawthorn begins with the 'prehistory' of the subject and traces, particularly in the thought of Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, the emergence of certain fundamental distinctions and assumptions whose existence is often overlooked in studies of the traditional 'founding-fathers' of sociology like Marx, Durkheim and Weber.

Author: Geoffrey Hawthorn
ISBN-10: 0521337216
ISBN-13: 9780521337212
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/1987
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.44w x 0.73d