Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction -- Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Intellectuals Have Coded, Narrated, and Explained the 'New World of Our Time' -- Between Progress and Apocalypse: Social Theory and the Dream of Reason in the Twentieth Century -- General Theory in the Postpositivist Mode: The 'Epistemological Dilemma' and the Search for Present Reason -- The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu.
