Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western Utopian thought, and as an imagined pristine condition equated with traditional societies in classical ...

This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization.

With this introduction to the concept of community, Gerard Delanty analyses the origins of the idea in Western utopian thought and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies in classical sociology and anthropology.

In this volume, he advances the need to reconnect social theory and social research and to return to the foundational concerns of critical social theory.

The book argues that: nationalism is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some of the major conflicts in modernity; nationalism reflects and reinforces four key trends in western social ...

Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western utopian thought, and as a theme in classical sociology and anthropology.

Gerard Delanty evaluates with economy and precision the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine. He then moves on to consider Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson.

This book provides a critical assessment of contemporary social theory for students in the social sciences.

This book presents a historical and political sociology of European history and society.

This is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging texts in recent years on debates on method and the contemporary situation of social science.