The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by Martin, John Levi
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by Martin, John Levi

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action

We have many histories of social theory--what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous...
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Author: John Levi Martin
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The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by Martin, John Levi

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action

CHF 110.59
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by Martin, John Levi

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action

CHF 110.59
Author: John Levi Martin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

We have many histories of social theory--what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms--what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims. Yet today's social thoughts largely employ structures passed down from previous generations, structures that were developed to solve problems that are no longer ours.

In The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, John Levi Martin explores these structures, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought. By examining how thinkers mapped interpersonal to intrapersonal structures, he traces the development of the underlying architectonics of theory, focusing on one that was inherited from eighteenth-century philosophy and brought into social science in the nineteenth century. He shows that the structural tensions inherent in these theories paralleled those being worked out in practical terms by constitutional theorists as thinkers attempted to return to their most fundamental understandings of the nature of the human, the social, and the political to recraft their societies. A magisterial new interpretation of the foundations of sociological thought, The True, the Good, and the Beautiful is as ambitious a work of social theory as we have seen in generations.

Author: John Levi Martin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 1120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.75lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.06w x 2.60d
ISBN: 9780231213127

About the Author
John Levi Martin is the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structure (2011) and The Explanation of Social Action (second edition, 2021), as well as Thinking Through Theory (2014), Thinking Through Methods (2017), and Thinking Through Statistics (2018).
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