EPISODE · Aug 29, 2020 · 1H 38M
"Power in Modernity:" A Conversation with Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed
from Theory & Philosophy · host David Guignion
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11636599.html “Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9241-4 Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, “Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven pillars of a new research agenda” https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/reed_adams_theory_and_society_2011_1.pdf
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11636599.html “Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9241-4 Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, “Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven pillars of a new research agenda” https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/reed_adams_theory_and_society_2011_1.pdf
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