Ordinary Knowledge: An Introduction to Interpretative Sociology - Rilegato

Maffesoli, Michel

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ISBN 10: 0745611184 ISBN 13: 9780745611181

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 1996

Riassunto

In this important and stylish book, Michel Maffesoli argues that it is impossible to reduce knowledge to a conception of science inherited from the nineteenth century. Instead, he argues, we must go beyond intellectual conformities based on limited and archaic moral or political foundations. This approach emphasizes the growing importance of information and communication in modern societies.

Maffesoli suggests that sociologists have too often succumbed to the "positivist fascination" of analytical formalism and dualistic thinking. Rather than viewing society as a finished product, he develops an approach which seeks to analyse, in all their nuances and contradictions, the new forms of social life - particularly everyday life - which are beginning to emerge in the late twentieth century.

A timely contribution to current debates, Ordinary Knowledge will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociology and social theory.

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Recensione:

"Maffesoli′s feel for the local places him in the vanguard ofpostmodern sociology. Maffesoli′s scholarship, his insight intocontemporary subjectivity and his understanding of relativism makethis book an important intervention in the field of contemporarycultural analysis." Roy Boyne, School of Human Studies,University of Teesside

"Maffesoli develops his arguments with the same elegance andsensitivity to style to which he draws attention in social lifeitself. There can be no doubt that Maffesoli is one of the leadingsociological analysts of the fin de siècle." WilliamOuthwaite, School of European Studies, University of Sussex

L'autore:

Michel Maffesoli teaches at the University of Paris V-Sorbonne.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0745611184
• ISBN 13: 9780745611181
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 196