Giddens and Politics beyond the Third Way

Utopian Realism in the Late Modern Age

P. Kolarz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-70692-1 (ISBN)

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Assessing the political dimensions of Anthony Giddens' work from the 1970s to the present, this book highlights new directions for politics distinct from his Third Way. Kolarz provides an assessment of Giddens' political relevance and utility for present-day political endeavours, reflecting on the approach to critical social theory found in his early work, notably his theory of structuration and critique of historical materialism, and his consequent utopian realist analysis of late modernity. Giddens and Politics beyond the Third Way extracts from his work a rationale for global redistributive action, as well as an integrative approach to policymaking, suggesting that coherence of centre-left emancipatory politics requires coordination of policy areas previously thought of as separate.

Peter Kolarz is Policy Research Consultant at Technopolis Group, UK. He studied for his PhD at the University of Sussex, UK and subsequently worked as a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Introduction. Anthony Giddens: Social Theory and Politics
Part I: Utopian Realism: A Political Reading of the Early Giddens
1. Critical Foundations: Structuration and System Transformation
2. Utopian Realism: Late Modernity Revisited
Part II: The Countours of a Giddensian Politics
3. The Political Consequences of Late Modernity
4. Globalization and Capitalism
Part III: The Third Way and Beyond: Critique and Reconstruction
5. The Third Way: A Utopian Realist Critique
6. Conclusion: Integrated Policymaking and the Transformation of Capitalism

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	XI, 218 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Anthony Giddens • Capitalism • Centre-left • Democracy • Giddens • Globalization • Policy • policymaking • Politics • Realism • Social Democracy • Social Theory • Transformation • transforming capitalism • Utopia • utopian realism • Work
ISBN-10	1-349-70692-2 / 1349706922
ISBN-13	978-1-349-70692-1 / 9781349706921
Zustand	Neuware