Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism
Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism
by Robert Wuthnow
Harvard University Press, 1989 Paper: 978-0-674-15165-9 | eISBN: 978-0-674-04540-8 | Cloth: 978-0-674-15164-2 Library of Congress Classification HN13.W88 1989 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.372
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society—the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction The Problem of Articulation
Part I
The Protestant Reformation
1
Contexts and Perspectives
2
State Autonomy and the Reformation
3
The Failure of Reformation
4
Social Conditions and Reformation Discourse
Part II
The Enlightenment
5
Mercantilism and the House of Learning
6
Cultural Production in France and England
7
Enlightenment Developments in Prussia and Scotland