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Consciousness and society

Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart),
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2002.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart), 1916-1999.
Subject: Social sciences
Publication Year:1958
Language:English
Published:New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2002.
ISBN:9780765809186
0765809184
Notes:Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1958.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the transaction edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Some preliminary observations -- 2. The decade of the 1890's: the revolt against positivism -- 3. The critique of Marxism -- Durkheim and Marxism as moral passion -- Pareto and the theory of the elite -- Croce and historical materialism as a canon of interpretation -- Sorel and Marxism as "social poetry" -- Postscript: Gramsci and Marxist humanism -- 4. The recovery of the unconscious -- The philosophical and scientific setting -- Bergson and the uses of intuition -- Sigmund Freud: epistemology and metaphysics -- Sigmund Freud: social philosophy -- Jung and the "collective unconscious" -- 5. Georges Sorel's search for reality -- 6. Neo-idealism in history -- The German idealist tradition -- Dilthey and the definition of the "cultural sciences" -- Benedetto Croce: from the "first essays" to the "historiography" -- Benedetto Croce: the concept of ethico-political history -- Troeltsch, Meinecke, and the crisis in German values -- 7. The heirs of Machiavelli: Pareto, Mosca, Michels -- Postscript: Alain and the restatement of radicalism -- 8. Max Weber and the transcending of positivism and idealism -- Preamble: Durkheim and the positivist remainder -- Intellectual origins and early production -- The methodological phase -- The studies of religion -- Sociology and history -- 9. The European imagination and the First World War -- The generation of 1905 -- Peguy and Alain-Fournier -- The novelist and the bourgeois world: Gide and Mann -- The moral legacy of the war: Spengler and the "elders" -- The literary sensations of the post-war years: Hesse, Proust, Pirandello -- 10. The decade of the 1920's: the intellectuals at the point of cleavage -- The new philosophical interests -- The social questions -- The role of the intellectuals: Mann, Benda, Mannheim -- A generation in retrospect -- Bibliographical note -- Index.
Course: SOC205

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English Book (4/F) 301.09 HUG 2002 Available