Visualising Worlds World-Making and Social Theory [#488656]

Martyn Hudson, "Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory "
English | ISBN: 036768165X | 2021 | 106 pages | EPUB | 421 KB
This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study,