Knowledge Anchor (Rebuilding Contemporary Social Theory)

Author: Zhao Gang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: If the knowledge production of society and humanities scholars still aims to maintain relevance to the contemporary reality, 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). At the same time, it also hopes to delve deeper into the important issue of the conditions, foundations, and more reasonable operational approaches of critical knowledge in the specific context of the contemporary environment through this kind of intellectual dialogue that sustains social reality. In addition to discussing the different intellectual traditions involved, this book also attempts to examine the problems and potential of contemporary sociological paradigms and cultural paradigms.