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Mad Hazard - A Life in Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Mad Hazard - A Life in Social Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner,
chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner's later
work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership,
and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this
volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and
pressures, as well as the personal relationships, that facilitated
and shaped an academic career. From Turner's childhood in the
racially violent South Side of Chicago, the development of his
interests in social theory, through to his education in the shadow
of the war in Vietnam and a period of social and personal turmoil,
this biographical work shows us not only the development of
academic thinking, but the evolution of an academic career. The
rebellion within sociology against the hegemonic Merton-Parsons
conception of sociology and the methodological orthodoxies of the
time leads through to a discussion of the philosophy of science and
social science, and from there to a reassessment of the inherited
view of the classics, to science studies, and to political and
international relations theory - the comprehensive nature of Mad
Hazard means the reader can truly understand how Turner's academic
journey evolved. Revealing an academic career not dependent on
prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy
and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers
interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those
interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present
university.
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