Dialectics in Social Thought The Present Crisis

Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and

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Dialectics in Social Thought

10.1057/9781137387066 - Dialectics in Social Thought, Geoffrey R Skoll

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The Present Crisis

Geoffrey R. Skoll

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Dialectics in Social Thought

dialectics in social thought Copyright © Geoffrey R. Skoll 2014. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-38889-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Skoll, Geoffrey R., 1948Dialects in social thought : the present crisis / by Geoffrey R Skoll. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-137-38889-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Social sciences—Philosophy. I. Title. H61.15.S56 2014 300.1—dc23 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: June 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Preface

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1 Introduction: Dialectics and Social Thought: The Present Crisis

1

2 Marx and the Dialectic of Capital

21

3 Freud and the Dialectic of Psychology

39

4 Peirce, Mead, Goffman, and Interactional Social Science

57

5 Culture and Society

73

6 Critical Theories

89

7 Rebellion

107

8 The Phenomenologists

123

9 Contemporary Social Thought: Agamben to Žižek

141

10 The Dialectics