Logics of History

Social Theory and Social Transformation

William H. Sewell Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2005
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-74918-1 (ISBN)

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While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themeselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists' treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge.
In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.

William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three previous books, including Work and Revolution in France and A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
ISBN-10	0-226-74918-5 / 0226749185
ISBN-13	978-0-226-74918-1 / 9780226749181
Zustand	Neuware