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Risk, environment and modernity : towards a new ecology
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ISBN: 080397938X 0803979371 128388075X 1848609574 0585343705 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Sage


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Experience: new foundations for the human sciences
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ISBN: 9780745695143 9780745695150 0745695159 0745695140 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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"This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Scott Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions stemming from positivism, in contrast to the tradition of interpretative social enquiry pioneered by Max Weber. These assumptions are particularly central to economics, with its emphasis on homo economicus, the utility-maximizing, instrumental actor, but they have infiltrated the other social sciences too. Lash argues for a social sciences based not in positivisms utilitarian a priori but instead in the a posteriori of grounded and embedded subjective experience. This features a politics of Hannah Arendts public sphere, which begins with the particular experience of Aristotles polis and moves - via Rome, Augustine and Kant - to a modernity that acknowledges the fragility of political worlds. Yet modernity is also a matter of technological experience and technological forms of life. Lash - starting from Aristotles technics and working through Turings and Shannons computer mediation develops a novel account of technological experience, of how objects themselves experience. And here he finds a surprising convergence with Chinese cosmologys ethos of dao, qi and li: the experience of the embedded multiplicity of the ten thousand things. This original book by a leading social and cultural theorist will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences, from sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and politics"--


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The militant worker: class and radicalism in France and America
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ISBN: 0435825178 Year: 1984 Publisher: London HEB

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Intensive culture : social theory, religion and contemporary capitalism
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ISBN: 141294516X 1282795023 9786612795022 0857029347 Year: 2010 Publisher: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE,

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Contemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterised as intensive. This innovative book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture.


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The militant worker : class and radicalism in France and America
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ISBN: 043582516X Year: 1984 Publisher: London Heinemann

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