Inventing Europe

This book is about how every age invented the idea of Europe in the mirror of its own identity.

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Delanty, Gerard

Science & Math

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity was invented and codified by a nationalist intelligentsia in the late nineteenth century. The trajectory of this national identity is traced as a process of crisis and contradiction. One of the central arguments is that the negative implications of Irish national identity have never been fully explored by social science.

Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology

O′Mahony, Patrick

Reference

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity was invented and codified by a nationalist intelligentsia in the late nineteenth century. The trajectory of this national identity is traced as a process of crisis and contradiction. One of the central arguments is that the negative implications of Irish national identity have never been fully explored by social science.

History

Europe

Citizenship in a Global Age: Society, Culture, Politics (Issues in Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Open University Pres

Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society

The famous philosophical conceptions of the Open University from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed in this book along with the major writings in modern social theory on the university, such as those of Weber, Parsons, Habermas, Gadamer, Lyotard and Bourdieu. In this far reaching contribution to the sociology of knowledge, Delanty views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect. He assesses the question of the crisis of the university with respect to issues such as globalization, the information age, the nation state, academic capitalism, cultural politics and changing relationships between research and teaching. Arguing against the notion of the demise of the university, his argument is that in the knowledge society of today a new identity for the university is emerging based on communication and new conceptions of citizenship. It should appeal to those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Open University Press

In this convergence of thought on the sociology of knowledge, modernity, and the idea of the university from the Enlightenment to the neoliberal global age, Delanty (sociology, U. of Liverpool) stresses the university's role in "technological citizenship" as he deconstructs it as an institution of modernity. In his case for higher education no longer having a monopoly on knowledge production, the author contrasts a gamut of views on the function of the intellectual: from Bourdieu's traditional model of education as social reproduction, to liberal and communist recognition of knowledge's economic and political capital. Published in conjunction with The Society for Research into Higher Education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Open Univ Pr

A succinct, readable guide discussing core ideas in social science This second edition of this respected and successful text includes essential new material covering the following topics:
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<li> Postmodern and feminist approaches </li> <li> The crisis in social science </li> <li> An overview of the main developments in the philosophy of the social sciences </li>
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Social Science builds on the success of the first edition and moves the discussions forward and brings up-to-date the material on the positivist dispute, hermeneutic theory, and the critical conception of social science. The main developments examined in this text include the positivist dispute (the rise of rationalism and empiricism, positivism, and implications of the work of Popper and Kuhn); hermeneutic theory from Weber to Schutz and Taylor; and the critical conception of social science, as in Marxism, Adorno, and Habermas. Social Science will be of strong interest to undergraduates and postgraduates in the social sciences as well as to professional researchers working in the areas of the philosophy of social science, the sociology of science and knowledge, and social and political theory.

Social Science (Concepts in the Social Sciences (Paperback))

Social Sciences

A succinct, readable guide discussing core ideas in social science This second edition of this respected and successful text includes essential new material covering the following topics:
<ul>
<li> Postmodern and feminist approaches </li> <li> The crisis in social science </li> <li> An overview of the main developments in the philosophy of the social sciences </li>
</ul>
Social Science builds on the success of the first edition and moves the discussions forward and brings up-to-date the material on the positivist dispute, hermeneutic theory, and the critical conception of social science. The main developments examined in this text include the positivist dispute (the rise of rationalism and empiricism, positivism, and implications of the work of Popper and Kuhn); hermeneutic theory from Weber to Schutz and Taylor; and the critical conception of social science, as in Marxism, Adorno, and Habermas. Social Science will be of strong interest to undergraduates and postgraduates in the social sciences as well as to professional researchers working in the areas of the philosophy of social science, the sociology of science and knowledge, and social and political theory.

Social Science (Concepts In The Social Sciences)

Critical Theory and Social Transformation: Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities

Philosophy

Routledge

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