There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-stat...(展开全部)

Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker, an internationally honoured historical geographer, focuses upon the work of North American, British and French historians and geographers but takes a global and interdisciplinary perspective upon the theory and practice of historical...(展开全部)

"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for one's own time, she regards every topic in this wide-ranging book from a fresh angle of vision, one which reveals unsuspected affi...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

乔治·瑞泽尔系美国马里兰大学社会学教授。主要研究兴趣为社会理论和工作社会学，曾任美国社会学会理论社会学分会主席和组织与职业社会学分会主席。出版过《社会学：一门多范式的科学》、《走向一种整合的社会学范式》、《社会的麦当劳化》等著作。其编写的教材《社会学理论》、《现代社会学理论》等都曾多次印行，深受读者喜爱。 谢立中，男，1957年生，祖籍湖南隆回。1992年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院社会学系，获哲学博士学位；1992-1994年在北京大学社会学系从事博士后研究工作；1999-2000年在哈佛大学从事访问研究；责任北京大学社会学教授、博士生导师。主要研究方向：社会学理论、社会发展与现代化。主要著作有：《社会发展二重奏》、《社会指标与社会发展评价》等。

乔治·瑞泽尔系美国马里兰大学社会学教授。主要研究兴趣为社会理论和工作社会学，曾任美国社会学会理论社会学分会主席和组织与职业社会学分会主席。出版过《社会学：一门多范式的科学》、《走向一种整合的社会学范式》、《社会的麦当劳化》等著作。其编写的教材《社会学理论》、《现代社会学理论》等都曾多次印行，深受读者喜爱。 谢立中，男，1957年生，祖籍湖南隆回。1992年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院社会学系，获哲学博士学位；1992-1994年在北京大学社会学系从事博士后研究工作；1999-2000年在哈佛大学从事访问研究；责任北京大学社会学教授、博士生导师。主要研究方向：社会学理论、社会发展与现代化。主要著作有：《社会发展二重奏》、《社会指标与社会发展评价》等。

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)