Riley, Dylan
Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present
- ISBN 13:
- 9781839768408
- author:
- Riley, Dylan
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Verso Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and culture, Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways.
Dylan Riley's response to the lockdown conditions was to produce an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. The book analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump's last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the coronavirus.
Working through key thinkers such as Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, Gramsci, Lukács, MacKinnon and Fraser, Riley brings sociology to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life. The notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology - the ability to see society in the round - and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the 'present as history'.
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