ISBN:
9781351294911
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Levine, Donald. N Dialogical Social Theory
DDC:
301.01
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Foreword by Peter Baehr -- Dialogue, Disputation, Dismissiveness and the Motives for Controversy -- Notes -- PART I: From Combat to Dialogue -- 1. Dialogical Social Theory -- Prologue. The Idea of Dialogue -- Note -- 2. Dialogue and Human Combat -- Nature: Aggression Instinctive -- Society and Environment: Aggression Cultural -- Micro-social Situations: Aggression Interpersonal -- Rebels Against Aggression -- Secular Trends that Support the Reduction of Combativeness -- 3. Transforming the Adversarial Mindset: Japanese Martial Arts and American Litigation -- The Martial Arts in Japanese Culture -- Litigation in Euro-American Culture -- The Methodology of Aikido -- The Methodology of Mediation -- Mutual Relevance -- Aikido's Gifts to Mediation -- How Mediation Might Enrich Aikido Practice -- Notes -- 4. Civilizations, Clashing and Harmonious -- In Support of the Huntington Thesis -- Challenges to the Huntington Thesis -- From Clashing to Connecting Civilization: The Greco-Roman Case -- India and Japan -- The Abrahamic Civilizations -- A Challenge for the Future -- Notes -- PART II: Dialogue Involving Shared Objectives -- 5. Universalism in the French Philosophes and the Russian Intelligentsia -- I The Universalist Outlook -- II Universalism in the French Enlightenment -- III Enlightenment Universalism on Russian Soil -- IV Universalism, Russian Style -- V Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Sociology of Morality in the Work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton -- Talcott Parsons: From Voluntarism to Multidimensional Determinism -- Georg Simmel: From Multidimensional Determinism To Existential Voluntarism -- Robert K. Merton: From Anomie To Normative Ambivalence -- Toward Integration -- Notes
Abstract:
7. Theory and Praxis in Parsons and McKeon -- Why McKeon and Parsons? -- The Semantic Project and the Voluntaristic Project -- Practice and the Theory of Action -- Six Views of the Theory-Practice Nexus -- Playing with Pluralism -- Selecting a Mode of Thought -- Notes -- 8. Freud and Ueshiba: Pioneers of Therapeutic Human Interaction -- Paradigm Shift: From Individuals as Such to the Interaction of Parties -- Uke as a Patient, Nage as Healer: Aiki Interactions as Therapeutic Work -- Uke as Dynamic Creator, Nage as Creative Receptor: A Six-Stage Paradigm Drawing on Lao Tse, Nietzsche, and Buber -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago -- Dewey as Educator -- Hutchins as an Unwitting Deweyan -- The Hutchins-Dewey Debate -- Notes -- PART III: Dialogues Involving Pointed Conversations -- 10. Hobbes and Locke -- The Hobbesian Assault on Aristotle -- Nature -- Theory and Practice -- Grounding Morality -- The Loyal Opposition: British Critics of Hobbes -- The Shaftesbury Amendment -- The Mandeville Amendment -- Notes -- 11. Montesquieu and Durkheim -- Montesquieu and Rousseau -- French Critics of Rousseau -- Societal Essentialism -- The French Discipline -- Notes -- 12. Kant and Hegel -- Kant's Triple Revolution -- Herder's Romantic Revolution -- From Kant to Hegel -- Notes -- 13. Positions on Conflict in Euro-American and Asian Social Thought -- Social Conflict as Inexorable -- Social Conflict as Contingent -- Bodily Bases of Aggression and Nonaggression -- Some Asian Views of the Body, Aggression, and Conflict -- Notes -- 14. Two Tales of One City -- Liben Gebre Etyopiya -- Narrative One -- Narrative Two -- 15. The Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge -- I -- II -- III -- An Action-Theoretic Paradigm for Assessing the Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge -- IV -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index
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