Challenges modernity on its own terms, using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, and texts as diverse as Rousseau's "Confessions" and James's "What Maisie Knew". The author confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment.
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..