The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action - Tapa dura

Martin, John Levi

 
9780231213127: The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action
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ISBN 10: 0231213123 ISBN 13: 9780231213127
Editorial: Columbia University Press, 2024

Sinopsis

We have many histories of social theory―what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms―what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims. Yet today’s social thoughts largely employ structures passed down from previous generations, structures that were developed to solve problems that are no longer ours.

In The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, John Levi Martin explores these structures, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought. By examining how thinkers mapped interpersonal to intrapersonal structures, he traces the development of the underlying architectonics of theory, focusing on one that was inherited from eighteenth-century philosophy and brought into social science in the nineteenth century. He shows that the structural tensions inherent in these theories paralleled those being worked out in practical terms by constitutional theorists as thinkers attempted to return to their most fundamental understandings of the nature of the human, the social, and the political to recraft their societies. A magisterial new interpretation of the foundations of sociological thought, The True, the Good, and the Beautiful is as ambitious a work of social theory as we have seen in generations.

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John Levi Martin is the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures (2011) and The Explanation of Social Action (second edition, 2021), as well as Thinking Through Theory (2014), Thinking Through Methods (2017), and Thinking Through Statistics (2018).

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Editorial
Columbia University Press
Año de publicación
2024
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0231213123
ISBN 13 
9780231213127
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Número de páginas
1120
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