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Unlock the profound insights of **Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present**, a compelling collection of over a hundred short essays that invite you to explore society and social theory in unprecedented ways. In this intellectually stimulating trade paperback, **Dylan Riley** harnesses the reflective space of lockdown, a concept recently termed 'enforced contemplation' by Theodor Adorno, to analyze the tumultuous dynamics of our current decade. **Published by Bloomsbury** in 2022, this book delves into critical sociology, examining the political turbulence of Trump's concluding months, as well as the intimate struggles of love and illness during the global pandemic.
Riley skillfully intertwines the theoretical frameworks of influential scholars such as Weber, Durkheim, and Gramsci with everyday issues of class, race, and gender, presenting an unparalleled view of intellectual culture. Through **Microverses**, readers are invited to engage thoughtfully with the complexities of contemporary life, from the subtleties of taking a solitary walk in a crisis to the intricate workings of an orchestra.
This collection serves not merely as an academic discourse but as a series of invitations to reflect, offering a holistic understanding of how sociology reflects and shapes our lived experiences. Explore the essence of 'the present as history' and join Riley on this critical journey of thought.
**Condition**: BRAND NEW
**ISBN**: 9781839768408
**Format**: Trade paperback (UK)
**Year**: 2022
**Publisher**: Bloomsbury
**Delivery Information**: Fast shipping available.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781839768408
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society and social theory in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced contemplation'. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. Microverses analyses 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.
Riley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Luk ics, 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.
Invitations rather than finished arguments, the notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology the ability to see society in the round, as though from the outside and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the 'present as history'.
Riley skillfully intertwines the theoretical frameworks of influential scholars such as Weber, Durkheim, and Gramsci with everyday issues of class, race, and gender, presenting an unparalleled view of intellectual culture. Through **Microverses**, readers are invited to engage thoughtfully with the complexities of contemporary life, from the subtleties of taking a solitary walk in a crisis to the intricate workings of an orchestra.
This collection serves not merely as an academic discourse but as a series of invitations to reflect, offering a holistic understanding of how sociology reflects and shapes our lived experiences. Explore the essence of 'the present as history' and join Riley on this critical journey of thought.
**Condition**: BRAND NEW
**ISBN**: 9781839768408
**Format**: Trade paperback (UK)
**Year**: 2022
**Publisher**: Bloomsbury
**Delivery Information**: Fast shipping available.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781839768408
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society and social theory in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced contemplation'. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. Microverses analyses 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.
Riley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Luk ics, 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.
Invitations rather than finished arguments, the notes attempt to recover the totalising perspective of sociology the ability to see society in the round, as though from the outside and to recuperate what Paul Sweezy described as a sense of the 'present as history'.