Talcott Parsons: Despair and Modernity

By Shaun Best

Book Overview

This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons' published work. The book explores the reasoning Parsons shares with his readers in the pages of his many published works and the possible links between Parsons' academic outputs and the social, economic and political situations in which Parsons found himself during the course of his life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472467442
• ISBN13: 9781472467447
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"