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Searching for the Light Essays on Thought and Culture
by Birnbaum, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195068890
- ISBN 13
- 9780195068894
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195068890 . Tight clean unmarked book in barely rubbed DJ. ; 1.09 x 9.57 x 6.36 Inches; 252 pages; Collected here for the first time are a number of important essays that Birnbaum has written over the last twenty years, ranging from such compelling topics as sociology to post-Marxism to education. Two questions inspire these essays. If thinkers are prisoners of their political contexts, how can thought apprehend historical movement? Can moral imagination alter social constraints? Birnbaum sees sociology as historical and philosophical commentary, shaped by politics. In close and subtle examinations of the Marxist legacy, he makes innovative analytical moves and turns Marxism upon itself. His investigation includes an essay on the Marxist theory of religion proving that it is a major contribution to the debate on society and spirituality. An inquiry into the antithesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis asks if any project of human self-transformation is still plausible. In an essay dated 1984, he anticipates the collapse of the Communist regimes and new conflicts in the West. In a stringent article written after the sixties, but which speaks to the nineties, he considers the technocratic servitude of the liberal university. Finally, he describes the contradictory advice offered to President Mitterand when he convened the world's intellectual vanguard in Paris in 1983. Birnbaum concludes, half in melancholy and half in hope, that intellectual inquiry's critical tasks are unending. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22411
- Title
- Searching for the Light Essays on Thought and Culture
- Author
- Birnbaum, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195068890
- ISBN 13
- 9780195068894
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0195068890, Sociology, Social Sciences, Nonfiction, Books, Social Theory, Sociobiology, Anthropology, Political Science, Marxism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Culture; Philosophy;
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B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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