Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists

Beyond the Enlightenment makes accessible important ideas that helped shape twentieth-century thought. These ideas still have a great deal of significance today and affect all people interested in the social world. The book is a mixture of biographical and historical ideas, written to introduce social theory to a broad audience. It looks at the intersection between the theorist as a social actor and a reflection of his or her time. The breadth of this title makes it a useful tool to all those interested in sociology and its many great minds, from nineteenth-century thinkers such as Hegel and Marx, to the post-modernists.