Showing papers by "Anthony Giddens published in 1993"
TL;DR: In this article, Foucault on Sexuality and Commitment, Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship are discussed, and the Sociological Meaning of Codependence is discussed.
Abstract: Preface. Introduction. 1. Everyday Experiments, Relationships, Sexuality. 2. Foucault on Sexuality. 3. Romantic Love and Other Attachments. 4. Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship. 5. Love, Sex and Other Addictions. 6. The Sociological Meaning of Codependence. 7. Personal Turbulence, Sexual Troubles. 8. Contradictions of the Pure Relationship. 9. Sexuality, Repression, Civilisation. 10. Intimacy as Democracy. Index.
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critical interpretation of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim's political sociology, focusing on the production and reproduction of social life and the question of action and structure.
Abstract: Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1 ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONS - Critical Interpretations of Marx - The Political Context of Max Weber's Sociology - Durkheim's Political Sociology - Marx, Weber and Capitalism - PART 2 PROBLEMS OF ACTION AND STRUCTURE - Social Theory and the Question of Action - The Production and Reproduction of Social Life - The Concept of Structure - Structure, Action, Reproduction - Lay Knowledge and Technical Concepts - Structural Theory and Empirical Research - PART 3 TIME, AND SPACE - Time-Space, Structure, System - Time-Space Distanciation - Analysing Social Change - The Production of Everyday Life - PART 4 DOMINATION AND POWER - Parsons on Power - Critique of Foucault - Class Structuration - Class and Power - Administrative Power and the Nation-State - The Nation-State and Military Power - PART 5 THE NATURE OF MODERNITY - A 'Discontinuist' Approach - Dynamic Tendencies of Modernity - Trust and Risk in Social Life - Modernity and Self-Identity - Love and Sexuality - PART 6 CRITICAL THEORY - Max Weber on Facts and Values - Critical Theory Without Guarantees - Utopian Realism - Emancipatory and Life Politics - Selected Bibliography - Index
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TL;DR: The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe was a defeat for the project of modernity, which sought to bring the social and material worlds under human control as mentioned in this paper, while the irrationalities of social life were to be overcome by rational management.
Abstract: The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe: the end of history, as Francis Fukuyama says or, rather, the end of modernity? For Fukuyama, the end of history means in effect the completion of modernity. Competitive capitalism allied to liberal democracy is the culmination of historical development, a social order that reconciles economic efficiency with a mass democratic representation. According to Zygmunt Bauman,' on the other hand, the full flowering of modernity is not Western capitalism but, precisely Communism. The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe was a defeat for the project of modernity, which sought to bring the social and material worlds under human control. Nature was to be remade in such a way as to subordinate it to human purposes, while the irrationalities of social life were to be overcome by rational management. Spontaneity was seen as meaningless and chaotic, the antithesis of an order constructed by means of legislative control. In Bauman's words: "Throughout its history, Communism was modernity's most devout, vigorous and gallant champion pious to the point of simplicity. It also claimed to be its only true champion ... it was under Communist, not capitalist, auspices that the audacious dream of modernity, freed from obstacles by the merciless and seemingly omnipotent state, was pushed to its radical limits: grand designs, unlimited social engineering, large and bulky technology, total transformation of nature."2
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