Knowledge Anchor: Rebuilding Contemporary Social Theory

Author: Zhao Gang
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: If the knowledge production of society and humanities scholars still aims to maintain relevance to contemporary realities, they must confront several core issues. These at least include nationalism, liberalism, the condition of intellectuals, socialism under globalization, and other topics. This book attempts to engage with these real-world issues through dialogues with multiple scholars and thinkers (including Nietzsche, Dewey, Mills, Wang Hui, Harvey, Bourdieu). Additionally, it hopes to delve more deeply into the crucial issue of the conditions, foundations, and more reasonable operational approaches of critical knowledge within specific contemporary contexts through this kind of knowledge dialogue that sustains social realities. Beyond discussing the different intellectual traditions involved, the book also seeks to examine the problems and potentials of contemporary sociological and cultural paradigms.