HomeDLSU Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Cultural Studiesvol. 28 no. 1 (2003)

Nation, Self and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology

Filomin C. Gutierrez

Discipline: Literature, History, Sociology, Philippine Literature

 

Abstract:

 
Randolf David's Nation, Self and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology, is a collection of essays that captures sociological thinking as applied in the Philippine context, in a simple yet profound manner. The essays provide the readers with ideas of social theorist, from Marx to Foucault, from Nietzche to Rorty and many others whose reflections are made palpable in the Filipinos' personal and collective experiences of history, modernity, and postmodernity.