Microverses : observations from a shattered present /
A hundred short essays invite us to think about society and social theory in new ways. Riley analyzes 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. He delves...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
[2022].
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| Summary: | A hundred short essays invite us to think about society and social theory in new ways. Riley analyzes 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. He delves into Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Lukács, MacKinnon and Fraser, to weigh sociology's relationship to Marxism and the operations of class, race and gender, alongside discursions into the workings of an orchestra and the complicatedness of taking a walk in a pandemic. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 137 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-137). |
| ISBN: | 9781839768408 1839768401 |