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  • On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim
    This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. Mike Gane argues that to understand The Rules it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society in which the book was written. He explores the cultural and philosophical debates which raged in France during the period when Durkheim ... Read more

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  • Harmless Lovers

    Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships

    by Mike Gane ...
    This book examines the interconnections of gender theory and lived gender relationships of some of the key social theorists of the classical period (1789 - 1920): Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Enfantin, Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Durkheim and Weber. By recounting the confrontations of these theorists with the spectre of the new woman, and women's emancipation, it opens up new questions for ... Read more

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  • Ideological Representation and Power in Social Relations

    Literary and Social Theory

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational theory which has been predominant in recent years. It contains stimulating essays on the fiction of Perault, Borges, James, Eco and Tournier. These are complemented by theoretical essays on power and representation which provide powerful critiques of Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze and Marin, writers central to the ... Read more

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  • Baudrillard (RLE Social Theory)

    Critical and Fatal Theory

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Baudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and is often referred to as the ‘High Priest of Postmodernism’. This study presents a detached assessment of his social thought and his reputation, challenging the way his work has been received in postmodernism and proposing a new reading of his contribution to social theory. Using many sources currently ... Read more

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  • Foucault's New Domains

    Edited by Mike Gane, Terry Johnson ...
    This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences. Concise, clear and wide-ranging it provides an essential accessory to the understanding one of the key thinkers in the twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • Towards a critique of Foucault

    Foucault, Lacan and the question of ethics.

    Edited by Mike Gane ...
    The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines. The essays in this reissued collection, originally published in 1986, present Foucault's work as an important contribution to the theoretical analysis of history, language and power. They also represent a critical response to ... Read more

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  • Baudrillard's Bestiary

    Baudrillard and Culture

    by Mike Gane ...
    Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard ... Read more

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  • Baudrillard Live

    Selected Interviews

    Edited by Mike Gane ...
    Jean Baudrillard arouses strong opinions. In this collection of his most important interviews the reader gains a unique and accessible overview of Baudrillard's key ideas. The collection includes many interviews that appear in English for the first time as well as a fascinating interview and encounter between the editor and Baudrillard in Paris. ... Read more

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  • Auguste Comte

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure.Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive ... Read more

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  • McCloskey's Rhetoric

    Discourse Ethics in Economics

    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of Deirdre McCloskey and other ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Zizek

    Series series Conversations
    In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today.Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist who ... Read more

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