Social Theory: A Historical Introduction

by Alex Callinicos and Alex Callincos

Book Overview

The second edition of this remarkably lucid text, provides awide-ranging historical introduction to social theory. The newedition preserves, and further enhances, the book's strikingqualities - its clarity, reliability, comprehensiveness andscholarship. The theorists treated include Montesquieu, Adam Smithand the Scottish Enlightenment, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Maistre, Gobineau, Darwin, Spencer, Kautsky, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745638406
• ISBN13: 9780745638409
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"