{"product_id":"microverses-dylan-riley-9781839768408","title":"Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eShort essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and culture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMicroverses\u003c\/i\u003e comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced contemplation'. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. \u003ci\u003eMicroverses\u003c\/i\u003e analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump's last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the coronavirus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRiley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Luk當s, MacKinnon and Fraser, to weigh sociology's relationship to Marxism and the operations of class, race and gender, alongside discursions into the workings of an orchestra and the complicatedness of taking a walk in a pandemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvitations rather than finished arguments, the notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology - the ability to see society in the round, as though from the outside - and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the 'present as history'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dylan Riley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839768401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839768408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Dylan Riley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056393875711,"sku":"9781839768408","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9dec55b9-306a-4fc5-9182-ea6b2640fbe6.jpg?v=1685041072","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/microverses-dylan-riley-9781839768408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}