Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era

Abstract

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: The Enlightenment and the Classical Tradition: The Dream of Reason: 1. Grand Visions: Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. 2. The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Part II: Disciplining Theory: The Making of a Sociological Theory Canon: 3. From European Social Theory to American Sociological Theory: Talcott Parsons and the Autonomy of Theory. 4. The Triumph of Scientific Theory: Postwar American Sociological Theory and the Abandonment of Public Enlightenment. Part III: Dislodging the Canon: The Reassertion of a Moral Vision of the Human Sciences: 5. Between Science and Politics: The Critical Theory of C. W. Mills, Jurgen Habermas, and Stuart Mill. 6. Knowledge and Power: The French Poststructuralists. 7. The New Social Movements and the Making of New Social Knowledges. 8 Post-Enlightenment Paradigms of Disciplinary Knowledge: Refashioning Sociology for the Twenty-First Century. Epilogue. Bibliographic Essay. Index.