The dialectics of social life
alarms and excursions in anthropological theory
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Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL20837139M
- ISBN-10046501643X
- OCLC Control Number144154
- OCLC Control Numberdialecticsofsoci0000murp
- Library of Congress Control Number72147015
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- LibraryThing85406
- Goodreads6238327
Classifications
- DDC301.2/09
- LCCGN320 .M85
Description
"In a sweeping synthesis that takes the reader from the ideas of Hegel, Marx, Freud, Durkheim, and Simmel to modern anthropology, Robert Murphy lays bare the failures of established social science and charts the new directions that theory must take. The author believes that academic social inquiry has produced a partial and distorted picture of social reality. He argues instead for a complete and critical view of the processes of society that would draw from the insights and methods of a non-Marxian dialectic philosophy. To Professor Murphy, contradictions between ideology and behavior are not signs of social malaise or symptoms of revolution but are existential to humanity. From this vantage he sees the tendency of all societies to be toward imbalance and movement--not toward stability."--Dust jacket.
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