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The social in question : new bearings in history and the social sciences / edited by Patrick Joyce.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041523199X
  • 9780415231992
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.09 21
LOC classification:
  • HM435 .S63 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction / Patrick Joyce -- Pt. I. The old social: histories of the social. 2. The Mediaeval origins of civil society / Catherine Pickstock. 3. The liberal civil subject and the social in eighteenth-century British moral philosophy / Mary Poovey. 4. Repatriating modernity's alleged debts to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary social science and the genesis of the nation state / Robert Wokler. 5. The colonial genealogy of society: community and political modernity in India / Gyan Prakash. 6. Maps, blood and the city: the governance of the social in nineteenth-century Britain / Patrick Joyce -- Pt. II. The new social: theory, practice and disciplines. 7. Gabriel Tarde and the end of the social / Bruno Latour. 8. The place of space in the study of the social / Richard Biernacki and Jennifer Jordan. 9. The spaces of clock times / Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift. 10. History, theory, disciplinarity / Thomas Osborne. 11. Cultures of inquiry and the rethinking of disciplines / John R. Hall.
Summary: "Drawn from sociology, cultural studies, history and theology, an international and eminent cast of contributors look at how the idea of 'the social' developed from its mediaeval foundations to its consolidation in the early twentieth century. The book then charts how the concept has been brought into the question by critiques from science studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies before going on to look at how new framework are being proposed for the exploration of issues formerly seen as 'the social'."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Patrick Joyce -- Pt. I. The old social: histories of the social. 2. The Mediaeval origins of civil society / Catherine Pickstock. 3. The liberal civil subject and the social in eighteenth-century British moral philosophy / Mary Poovey. 4. Repatriating modernity's alleged debts to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary social science and the genesis of the nation state / Robert Wokler. 5. The colonial genealogy of society: community and political modernity in India / Gyan Prakash. 6. Maps, blood and the city: the governance of the social in nineteenth-century Britain / Patrick Joyce -- Pt. II. The new social: theory, practice and disciplines. 7. Gabriel Tarde and the end of the social / Bruno Latour. 8. The place of space in the study of the social / Richard Biernacki and Jennifer Jordan. 9. The spaces of clock times / Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift. 10. History, theory, disciplinarity / Thomas Osborne. 11. Cultures of inquiry and the rethinking of disciplines / John R. Hall.

"Drawn from sociology, cultural studies, history and theology, an international and eminent cast of contributors look at how the idea of 'the social' developed from its mediaeval foundations to its consolidation in the early twentieth century. The book then charts how the concept has been brought into the question by critiques from science studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies before going on to look at how new framework are being proposed for the exploration of issues formerly seen as 'the social'."--Publisher description.

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