杰弗里·C.亚历山大(Jeffrey C.A1exander),美国当代著名社会学家,耶鲁大学社会学教授,主要研究领域为社会思想史、知识社会学、政治学等。其他论著有《行动及其环境》、《新功能主义及其后》和《社会生活的意义》等。
发表于2024-11-04
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In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siecle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason. In response there emerged the profound skepticism about rationality that has so starkly defined the present fin de siecle. From Wittgenstein through Rorty and postmodernism, relativism rejects the very possibility of universal standards, while for both positivism and neo-Marxists like Bourdieu, reductionism claims that ideas simply reflect their social base. In a readable and spirited argument, Alexander develops the alternative of a "neo-modernist" position that defends reason from within a culturally centered perspective while remaining committed to the goal of explaining, not merely interpreting, contemporary social life. On the basis of a sweeping reinterpretation of postwar society and its intellectuals, he suggests that both antimodernist radicalism and postmodernist resignation are now in decline; a more democratic, less ethnocentric and more historically contingent universalizing social theory may thus emerge. Developing in his first two studies a historical approach to the problem of "absent reason," Alexander moves via a critique of Richard Rorty to construct his case for "present reason." Finally, focusing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he provokes the most sustained critical reflection yet on this influential thinker. Fin de Siecle Social Theory is a tonic intervention in contemporary debates, showing how social and cultural theory can properly take the measure of the extraordinary times in which we live.
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评分虽然名为“世纪末社会理论”,但这并不是一本系统阐述该主题的体系严密的著作,而只是收入了跟该主题相关的四篇论文,各篇文章之间关联度并不大,分析和论述也仅仅是泛泛而论,带有浓厚的作者个人色彩。冲着书名而来的读者,多半会感觉失望。
世纪末社会理论 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书