Discourse and Knowledge: The Making of Enlightenment Sociology

Piet Strydom

Discourse and Knowledge

The Making of Enlightenment Sociology

By closely analysing the contributions of such theorists as More, Hobbes, Vico, Montesquieu, Ferguson and Millar to the emergence of sociology in its original form, Piet Strydom follows the discursive construction of sociology in the context of the society-wide early modern practical discourse about violence and rights. Parallels with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourse on poverty and justice and the contemporary discourse of risk and responsibility allow the author to reflect not only on the generation of knowledge through discourse but also on the role that sociology itself plays in this process.

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Discourse and Knowledge

The Making of Enlightenment Sociology

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction: Discourse and Sociology
pp 1-26

Part I - Theory of Discourse and Discourse Analysis
pp 27-28

Introduction: From Presentism and Historicism to Discourse
pp 29-33

2 - Theory of Discourse
pp 34-52

3 - Sociological Theory of Discourse
pp 53-67

4 - Discourse of Modernity
pp 68-76

5 - Sociological Discourse Analysis
pp 77-90

Part II - Discourse of Modernity and the Construction of Sociology
pp 91-92

Introduction: Crisis Discourse and Sociology
pp 93-95

6 - The Early Modern Problem of Violence
pp 96-120

7 - The Rights Discourse
pp 121-181

8 - Contributions to Enlightenment Sociology
pp 182-232

9 - Discursive Construction of Enlightenment Sociology
pp 233-256

10 - Crisis and Critique: The Relation between Social and Political Theory
pp 257-266

Notes
pp 267-302

Bibliography
pp 303-329

Index of Names
pp 330-334

Subject Index
pp 335-344

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