ISBN:
9780230013261
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (260 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version How, Alan R Restoring the Classic in Sociology : Traditions, Texts and the Canon
DDC:
301.01
Schlagwort(e):
Critical theory
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Contents -- Section 1: The Issue of the Classic -- 1: Introduction -- Some Background -- Poststructuralism and the Reader-less, Referent-less, Author-less Text -- Structure of the Book: A Circuitous Route -- References -- 2: The Sense of an Ending -- Introduction -- The Critique of the 'Classics': First Responses -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Section 2: The Wider Context: The Past, the Classic, and the Identity of Sociology -- 3: In Pursuit of Identity: Fragmentation, Conflict and Crisis -- Introduction -- Volatile Identities, Unresolved Crises
Kurzfassung:
Two Models of Identity: Scientific, Humanistic -- Shils, Tradition and Post-traditional Sociology -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 4: On the Antipathy of Sociology to the Past -- Introduction -- Tradition as Habit -- The Thinning Down of Tradition -- Sociology and the Absence of the Past -- Tradition as Repression -- Late Modernity, Structuration and the Occlusion of Tradition -- Are These the Last days of Tradition? -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 5: Contested Identity: Sociology in Postmodern Times -- Introduction -- Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Kurzfassung:
The End of the Social and the Referent-less Text -- Postmodernist Claims and the Identity of Sociology -- The 'Dissolving' Subject and the Reader-less Text -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 6: Rethinking Tradition -- Introduction -- On the Persistence of Tradition -- The Continuity of Tradition: De-traditionalisation as Re-traditionalisation -- On Traditionality -- Habit as Tradition -- Habit, Know-How and Disposition as Propaedeutic to Understanding the Classic Text -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Section 3: Hermeneutics, Tradition, Classic and Canon
Kurzfassung:
7: The Hermeneutic Approach -- Introduction -- Hermeneutics -- Gadamer's Hermeneutics -- Excursus -- The Gadamer-Habermas Debate: What Habermas Takes from Hermeneutics -- The Fusion of Horizons: A Historiographical Example -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 8: Hermeneutics, Tradition and the Classic Text -- Introduction -- The Tide Turns: What Habermas Rejects in Hermeneutics -- Habermas and the Stance of the 'Last Historian' -- Breaching Tradition -- Restoring Language, Restoring Tradition -- The Nature of Classicity -- Understanding, Interpreting, and Applying
Kurzfassung:
Classicity and Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' Thesis -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 9: Canons and Their Discontents -- Introduction -- The Importance of Distinction: Structure and Agency -- A Canon Does Not a Classic Make -- The Idea of a Canon -- Academic Canons Are Not Religious Canons -- The Canon Reconsidered -- A Very Short Overall Summary -- References -- Index
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