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Anthony Giddens (sfortunatamenti vive)

 

Reflexivity, radicalised modernity, sociology, risk, trust

Weber, Durkheim, Marx (critical)

Beck

 

New Labour ideologue – big- wig on sociological scene, at some stage LSE director, and possibly also proprietor of Polity Press? Cambridge too.

 

 

Giddens began his vampirious career by feeding of Marx. He attacks the latter as functionalist but has substantially borrowed and manipulated from him to build the edifice of his pragmatic modernist perspective in sociology.

 

 

 

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Biographical

Giddens in a pint glass – summary of the arguments in Consequences of Modernity

Critique of Postmodernity

 

 

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Consequences of Modernity (1990)

Beyond left and right

Modernity and Self Identity

A contemporary critique of Historical Materialism

 

 

 

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