Detailed, timely and original this book explores the trans-cultural transmission of social theory. Derek Robbins presents us with a chronological commentary on the intellectual production of five French social thinkers (Aron, Althusser, Foucault, Lyotard, Bourdieu) and on the English reception of their texts. The book: • Sets up a Bourdieusian investigation of the habitus of the five thinkers and, comparatively, of the national sub-fields of intellectual discourse. • Enables an inter-active generation of enquiry based on the primacy of individual experience • Challenges the social sciences to abandon their grand narratives and to advance the cause of social democratic inclusion • Reconciles the legacies of the work of Bourdieu and Lyotard in order to advance practically a socio-analytic recognition of dissensus or différence. By representing modern classics of French social thought in socio-political context, this in-depth study encourages all social researchers to reflect on their use of social theories in their practice. Derek Robbin's companion website to French Post-War Social Theory can be found here www.derekrobbins.com/international-knowledge-transfer INDICE: Introduction Background Complementary Reading Note ReferencesRaymond Aron (1905-83) Background 1945-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 Notes ReferencesLouis Althusser (1918-90) Background 1945-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 Note ReferencesMichel Foucault (1926-84) Background 1945-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 Notes ReferencesJean-François Lyotard (1924-98) Background 1945-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 Notes ReferencesPierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Background 1945-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 Notes ReferencesPreliminary Concluding Comments Notes References
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