Theorising Welfare: Enlightenment and Modern Society

✍ Scribed by Dr Martin O'Brien, Dr Sue Penna

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

' Theorising Welfare is very well written and painstakingly clear. It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep' - Scott Lash, University of Lancaster

There are many interpretations of welfare and welfare states, each providing insights into different aspects of welfare and pointing to different possibilities for its future. Theorising Welfare provides a guide to these debates through an examination of seven theoretical perspectives - liberalism, Marxism, neo-liberalism, post-structuralism, political economy, political ecology and postmodernism - situating them within their histor

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROGRESS......Page 22
1 - Liberalism......Page 25
2 - Marxism......Page 54
PART TWO: AGAINST ENLIGHTENMENT: QUESTIONS ON POWER AND KNOWLEDGE......Page 84
3 - Neo-liberalism......Page 87
4 - Poststructuralism......Page 114
PART THREE: POST-ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEMATICS......Page 142
5 - Political Economy......Page 145
6 - Political Ecology......Page 169
7 - Postmodernism......Page 193
CRITIQUES AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 218
References......Page 241
Name Index......Page 253
Subject Index......Page 256

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