Christian Fleck

Intellectuals and their Publics (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Redaktion: Hess, Andreas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ever changing role of an intellectual in this new age of political uncertainty is innovatively focused on within this exciting collection of essays. Its provocative studies and multifaceted responses promote a vigorous debate of individual case studies and will be of particular interest for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317114871
• Artikelnr.: 45098883

Autorenporträt

Christian Fleck is Professor of Sociology at the Karl Franzens University of Graz and Director of the Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria. He has been a Fellow at Harvard University and at the Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library and in Spring 2008 he was Visiting Austrian Fulbright Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA. Andreas Hess is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. Amongst his previous books are Concepts of Social Stratification: European and American Models (2001); American Social and Political Thought: A Concise Introduction (2000) and (as editor) American Social and Political Thought: A Reader (2003) E. Stina Lyon is Professor and Pro Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University. Her present research interests are in the history of sociology, particularly with reference to sociological research methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One: Provocations
1: Public Intellectuals and Civil Society
2: Can Women Be Intellectuals?
3: Terrorism and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals
Two: Complications
4: European Civil Society and the European Intellectual: What Is, and How Does One Become, a European Intellectual?
5: What Influence? Public Intellectuals, the State and Civil Society
6: Public Intellectuals, East and West: Jan Pato?ka and Václav Havel in Contention with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Slavoj iek
7: Public Intellectuals and Totalitarianism: A Century's Debate
Three: Case Studies
8: Tocqueville as a Public Intellectual 1
9: Tocqueville's Dark Shadow: Gustave de Beaumont as Public Sociologist and Intellectual Avant la Lettre
10: French Sociologists and the Public Space of the Press: Thoughts Based on a Case Study (Le Monde, 1995-2002)
11: You Only See What You Reckon You Know: Max and Marianne Weber in the United States of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
12: Towards a Sociology of Intellectual Styles of Thought: Differences and Similarities in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas
13: Women as Public Intellectuals: Kerstin Hesselgren and Alva Myrdal
14: How Hayek Managed to Beat Lazarsfeld: The Different Perception of Two Sub-fields of Social Science 1
Three: Conclusion