Richard Kilminster: 4 books
Praxis and Method (RLE: Gramsci)
A Sociological Dialogue with Lukacs, Gramsci and the Early Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This sociological critique of the ‘philosophy of praxis’ looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukács, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel,...
The Sociological Revolution
From the Enlightenment to the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today.
Norbert Elias
Post-philosophical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human...
by Richard Kilminster, Cash Ahenakew, Kim Bachechi
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Sociology throws new light on the world we think we know. It can challenge long-held assumptions and it offers a spectrum of possibilities to extend our understandings of everyday life, politics, culture and relationships. It opens our eyes to alternatives for tackling social problems and connects...