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THE "ACTIVE SOCIETY" REVISITED
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| By: |
Wilson Carey McWilliams (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£121.00 |
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£108.90 |
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£12.10 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0742549143 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780742549142 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
28 November, 2005 |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work. |
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The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. It is sociology in the grand tradition, with at least one foot outside its own time. In it, Etzioni confronts the great modern irony- that setting out to become the masters of nature, humans become mastered by their own instruments- championing the sense of agency and aiming to demonstrate that humanity can direct its own creations, or at least, that societies can aspire to a greater measure of authentic self-government. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work. They comment on the importance of Etzioni's contributions, the magnitude of his achievement, and the extent to which The Active Society speaks to contemporary social and political life. |
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US |
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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