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What is phenomenological sociology? Why is it significant? This book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century.
In The Lure of Dreams Harvie Ferguson shows how Freud's writings and, in particular, The Lure of Dreams contribute both in their content and form to our understanding of the character of modernity.
We live, we are told, in bourgeois societies. But what is the bourgeois worldview? In this book, the author argues that science - the attempt to describe the order of things 'objectively' and 'dispassionately' - is the highest expression of bourgeois thought.
The affinity between melancholy and modernity is examined in this work through a comprehensive re-examination of the writings of Soren Kierkegaard. The complete range of Kierkegaard's work is set in the context of a social and historical theory of melancholy.
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