| Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality Contributor(s): Smart, Barry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761955208 ISBN-13: 9780761955207 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $65.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301.01 |
| LCCN: 98061736 |
| Series: Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Barry Smart offers a wide-ranging and critical discussion of how issues of reflexivity, ethics and moral responsibility inform social and political thought. Through a critical discussion of the ambivalent fruits′ of social analysis, exemplified in particular by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo, Beck, Bourdieu, Goffman, Giddens, Levinas and Bauman, this book submits that an important responsibility of social enquiry today is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen in relation to modernity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smart, Barry: - Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has longstanding research interests in the fields of social theory, political economy, and philosophy. His research interests include critical social research ethics; higher education; and collaborative work on veganism, ethics, lifestyle and environment. |