GIDDENS ANTHONY

ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ (ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ)
Το έργο του Γκίντενς στρέφεται γύρω από 6 κεντρικούς άξονες, που διατρέχουν ολόκληρο το κείμενο. Ο πρώτος είναι η μεταβολή του σύγχρονου κόσμου. Η κοινωνιολογία γεννήθηκε από τους μετασχηματισμούς που ξέκοψαν απότομα την εκβιομηχανιζόμενη κοινωνική οργάνωση της Δύσης από τους τρόπους ζωής που χαρακτήριζαν τις προηγούμενες κοινωνίες. Ο ρυθμός της κοινωνικής αλλαγής εξακολουθεί να επιταχύνεται ανά τον κόσμο και είναι πιθανό να βρισκόμαστε στο κατώφλι άλλο τόσο θεμελιακών μεταβολών όσο εκείνες που σημάδεψαν τον 18ο και 19ο αιώνα. Ο δεύτερ...
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(P/B) BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT
How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has turned defensive, while the right has become radical, advocating the free play of market forces no matter what obstacles of tradition or custom stand in their way. What explains such a curious twist of perspective? In answering this question Giddens develops a new framework for radical politics...
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(P/B) NEW RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD
This new edition of a standard work - used as a text throughout the world - has been thoroughly re-edited and revised. In it Giddens tells how he believes social theory should be constructed and conducted and offers a critique of schools of social thought that continues to occupy a place in contemporary debates. (From the publisher)...
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A CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM (P/B)
What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? In his Preface to the second edition of his book, Anthony Giddens offers an answer to this question. By so doing, he shows that the ideas developed in the original version of this study - a critical encounter not only with historical materialism but with other major perspectives in social thought, too - retain their relevance. Marx's views contained major flaws at source, and these took on specific substance in the failures of social...
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(P/B) MODERNITY AND SELF-IDENTITY
Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its global impact. It also radicallly alters the general nature of daily life and the most personal aspects of human activity. In fact, one of the most distinctive features of modernity is the increasing interconnection between globalizing influences and personal dispositions. The author analyzes the nature of this interconnection and provides a conceptual vocabulary for it, in the process providi...
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(P/B) CONVERSATIONS WITH ANTHONY GIDDENS