Discourse and Knowledge: The Making of Enlightenment Sociology

by Piet Strydom

Book Overview

By closely analysing the contributions of such theorists as More, Hobbes, Vico, Montesquieu, Ferguson and Millar to the emergence of sociology in its original form, Piet Strydom follows the discursive construction of sociology in the context of the society-wide early modern practical discourse about violence and rights. Parallels with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourse on poverty and justice and the contemporary discourse of risk and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238154
• ISBN13: 9780853238157
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 336 Pages