TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Social and political theory book ‘Reflexive Historical Sociology’ (1998) by Arpad ‎Szakolczai from the series of Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought which is a ‎scholarly and stylish work has been published in Persian.‎
The book has been translated into Persian by Zahra-Sadat Rouh ul-Amin. Tehran-based Neyestan-Ketab Publishing has recently released ‘Reflexive Historical Sociology’ in 304 pages.
This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called “reflexive historical sociology”.
There is an analysis of the works of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Eric Voegelin and a number of others. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 examines the works of Eric Voegelin, Norbert Elias, Lewis Mumford and Franz Borkenau.
Part 2 is concerned with the major conceptual tools such as experience, liminality, process, symbolization, figuration, order, dramatization and reflexivity, and themes such as the history of forms of thought, subjectivity, knowledge and closed space and regulated time. Finally, the book examines the most important insights of the thinkers discussed, concerning the historical processes that led to modernity.
Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University Colle.