Recovering the Self: Morality and Social Theory

by Victor J. Seidler

Book Overview

This important book seeks to place questions of morality and justice at the heart of social theory. By exploring the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber it shows the hidden complexities of a modernity too often identified with a unified vision of the rational self later to fall apart into fragments within postmodernity. Reinstating the body and emotional life, Seidler sets new terms for respect and equality showing ways the self is undermined in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041511151X
• ISBN13: 9780415111515
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"