1st Edition

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Radical Social Theory

By Stephen Crook Copyright 1991
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx, Durkheim, Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism, and offers a framework for the analysis of foundationalism in social theory.

    Introduction the Decline of Radical Social Theory; Chapter 1 The Idea of Modernist Radicalism; Chapter 2 The Sociological Critique of Modernist Radicalism; Chapter 3 The Auto-Critique of Modernist Radicalism; Chapter 4 The Swansong of Modernist Radicalism?; Chapter 5 The Postmodernist ‘End’ of Modernist Radicalism; Chapter 6 Foundationalism and Radicalism; Chapter 7 Post-Foundational Radicalism;

    Biography

    Stephen Crook is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.