Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theory (Cambridge Paperback Library) (Volume 0)

Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theory (Cambridge Paperback Library) (Volume 0) by Hawthorn, Geoffrey. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521337212.

Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century onwards. Hawthorn begins with the prehistory of the subject and traces, particularly in the thought of Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, the emergence of certain fundamental distinctions and assumptions whose existence is often overlooked in studies of the traditional founding-fathers of sociology like Marx, Durkheim and Weber.