Conversations with Anthony Giddens [antikvár]

Preface As Martin O'Brien's introductory essay makes clear, Anthony Giddens is something of a social science phenomenon. Over a quarter of a century of unrelenting productivity, he has become established as one of the world's most authoritative and widely cited social theorists. His interests are remarkably diverse, from the driest of Continental philosophy to the therapy-speak of the self-help manual, and his work builds upon a critical engagement with an extraordinary array of texts from within and way beyond the canon of the social sciences. He has helped to develop a whole new lexicon with which we can grasp what it means to live in the rapidly changing world of modernity: structuration, practical consciousness, time-space distanciation, manufactured risk, life politics. As if this were not quite enough, Giddens has also made the time to co-found his own publishing house, head up the new Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and still bear witness to the failure of his beloved Spurs football team to recreate the successes of his north London youth. In 1997, Giddens took up his most significant challenge as Director of the London School of Economics. Giddens has a