Creativity and critique : subjectivity and agency in Touraine and Ricoeur /
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| Author / Creator: | Ballantyne, Glenda. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 213 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social and critical theory ; v. 4 Social and critical theory ; v. 4. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218390 |
| Summary: | Many commentators have noted the fertile new intellectual period Critique of Modernity opened up in the social theory of Alain Touraine, but until now its innovations have not been the subject of a sustained analysis. This work locates the wellsprings of Touraine's renewed interpretive power in an implicit and unfinished, but unmistakable 'hermeneutical turn.' To deepen and extend his potent but only partly developed insights, the second part of the book develops his hermeneutical premises more explicitly, through a dialogue with the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. The outcome is a critical hermeneutics of the subject, which opens new possibilities for theorising human agency and social creativity, and renews the project of critical theory. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047422457 9047422457 9004157794 9789004157798 1281926515 9781281926517 9786611926519 6611926518 |