Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons

Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 559
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ISBN-10 : 9781317808619
ISBN-13 : 1317808614
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Book Synopsis Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons by : Jeffrey Alexander

Download or read book Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons written by Jeffrey Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.


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