David Kettler

Biographic Data

ID100213
NAMEDavid Kettler
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEKettler
SIGNATUREKETTLER D
AFFILIATIONSBard College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS71
TOTAL CITATIONS203
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX8

  • Learning from Franz L. Neumann - Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life

    David Kettler, Thomas WheatlandBOOKLearning from Franz L. Neumann2019

    A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new conception of democracy as a vehicle of social change. "Learning from Franz Neumann" examines Neumann's social and political theory in the context of his career as a practitioner, learner, and teacher

  • The Contemporary Tasks of Sociology

    Karl Mannheim, David Kettler et al.CHAPTERSociology As Political Education2018

  • An Introduction to Sociology

    Karl Mannheim, David Kettler et al.CHAPTERSociology As Political Education2018

  • Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism

    David Kettler, Volker MejaBOOKKarl Mannheim and the Crisis of…2018Cited by: 6

    To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is infernal) of these new times." Mannheim's aim was "to carry liberal values forward." His problem remains irresistible to reflective people at the end of the twentieth century. Mannheim attempted to link social thinking to political emancipation despit…

  • Sociology as Political Education

    Karl Mannheim, David Kettler et al.BOOKSociology As Political Education2018Cited by: 7

    German professors and academic intellectuals are often blamed for passivity or complicity in the National Socialist rise to power. Karl Mannheim was a leading representative of a vital minority of university personalities who devoted themselves to making sociology and higher education contribute to democratization. Sociology as Political Education is both an analytical account of Mannheim's efforts as well as an illustration of the application of…

  • Scp>M annheim, K arl (1893–1947)

    Open AccessDavid KettlerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2018

    Karl Mannheim's most important contribution to sociology is his exploratory work on the sociology of knowledge. There is a political dimension to his work, but it is increasingly recognized that his efforts bear on continuing problems of the discipline, as witness his constructive engagement with Max Weber's methodology

  • From Karl Mannheim

    Volker Meja, David Kettler et al.BOOKFrom Karl Mannheim2017

  • M annheim, K arl

    Open AccessDavid Kettler, Colin LoaderCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    The continuing theme of Karl Mannheim's social theory is education for rational orientation in a changing world. The central strategy of that endeavor is a distantiation from oneself to gain a more comprehensive perspective. This approach evolved from Mannheim's early cultural sociology to its more political successor, the sociology of knowledge, and finally to the theory of planning.

  • N eumann, F ranz L .

    Open AccessDavid KettlerCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    The German‐born political theorist Franz Leopold Neumann (1900–1954) was prominent among the exile scholars who brought the contested legacy of German social theory to American social and political science after 1933, especially in the study of modern democratic and dictatorial states. Neumann characterized himself as a “political intellectual.” His record suggests that he meant by this an active political agent who draws on the work of more acad…

  • From Karl Mannheim

    Volker Meja, David Kettler et al.BOOKFrom Karl Mannheim2017

  • Introduction

    Volker Meja, David Kettler et al.CHAPTERFrom Karl Mannheim2017

  • The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge

    Volker Meja, David Kettler et al.CHAPTERFrom Karl Mannheim2017

  • The Ideological and the Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena

    Volker Meja, David Kettler et al.CHAPTERFrom Karl Mannheim2017

  • La sociologie comme vocation. Viola Klein et Karl Mannheim

    David Kettler, Volker Meja et al.ARTICLECahiers du Genre2016

    Cet article met en lumière certains pans fondamentaux des travaux de Viola Klein, en les comparant à ceux de Karl Mannheim. Il montre en quoi Klein utilise la sociologie de la connaissance pour son propre compte. Elle le fait en questionnant le rapport entre idéologie et savoir sur les femmes, dans l’optique abandonnée par Mannheim au moment de son exil en Angleterre. Elle examine attentivement le dilemme de ce qu’elle nomme le ‘caractère féminin…

  • Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber

    David Kettler, Colin Loader et al.BOOKKarl Mannheim and the legacy of…2016Cited by: 4

    This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research programme. The authors show how contemporary work along these lines can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy. It returns Mannheim's sociology of knowledge inquiries into the broader context of a wider project in histor…

  • Â Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?â The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann

    David Kettler, Thomas WheatlandCHAPTERÉmigré Scholars and the Genesis…2014

  • Arthur Vidich Observed

    Open AccessDavid KettlerARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2012References: 1

  • How can we tell it to the children?' A deliberation at the Institute of Social Research

    Open AccessDavid Kettler, Thomas WheatlandARTICLEThesis Eleven2012Cited by: 1References: 7

    To introduce an archival protocol of a 'Debate about methods in the social sciences, especially the conception of social science method represented by the Institute', held on 17 January 1941 at the Institute of Social Research in New York, the article focuses on certain conflicts in substance and terms of discourse among members of the Institute, with special emphasis on Franz Neumann's distinctive approaches, notwithstanding his professed loyalt…

  • Karl Mannheim's Jewish Question

    Open AccessDavid Kettler, Volker MejaARTICLEReligions2012Cited by: 1References: 4

    In this paper, we explore Karl Mannheim's puzzling failure (or refusal) to address himself in any way to questions arising out of the position of Jews in Germany, either before or after the advent of Nazi rule-and this, notwithstanding the fact, first, that his own ethnic identification as a Jew was never in question and that he shared vivid experiences of anti-Semitism, and consequent exile from both Hungary and Germany, and, second, that his en…

  • Introduction to 'Soul and Culture

    Open AccessDavid KettlerARTICLETheory Culture & Society2012

    This introduction briefly places Karl Mannheim's 1918 lecture on the crisis in relations between 'subjective' and 'objective' culture in the context of Mannheim's negotiations with Georg Simmel's sociology of culture, as mediated by the young Mannheim's intimate ties to Georg Lukács and his circle

  • Karl Mannheim and the legacy of Max Weber

    David Kettler, Colin Loader et al.BOOKKarl Mannheim and the legacy of…2008

    Contents: Preface Introduction The challenging context Time and place The social structure of advancement: education for life in the economy The 'intensive study group' around Karl Mannheim Norbert Elias and the sociology of external forms Hans Gerthe and Hans Weil: the genealogy of the liberal Bildungselite KAthe Truhel and the idea of a social bureaucracy Nathalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal: the genealogy of women's movements Jacob Katz…

  • Women and the state

    Open AccessDavid KettlerARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2007References: 9

    Käthe Truhel’s 1934 doctoral dissertation, prepared under the supervision of Karl Mannheim, repays detailed examination for a number of reasons. First, it serves as an important counter-example to commonplace generalities about the alleged incapacity of women social workers of Truhel’s generation, supposedly enmeshed in ideological myths about ‘motherliness’, to reflect on their power relations to a male-dominated society and state. Second, it of…

  • The Political Theory Question in Political Science, 1956-1967

    Open AccessDavid KettlerARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review2006Cited by: 3References: 20

    Despite the postwar rise of behavioralism in political science, the Review gave surprising prominence to traditional political theory during Harvey C. Mansfield's ten-year term as editor (1956-1965), all the more striking for the prominence of Leo Strauss and his students during the first half of this period. This article considers several factors that help explain the surprising recognition given this subfield and its unexpected bargaining power

  • Adam Ferguson

    Open AccessDavid KettlerBOOKAdam Ferguson2005

    The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers…

  • Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber

    David Kettler, Colin Loader et al.

    Contents: Preface Introduction The challenging context Time and place The social structure of advancement: education for life in the economy The 'intensive study group' around Karl Mannheim Norbert Elias and the sociology of external forms Hans Gerthe and Hans Weil: the genealogy of the liberal Bildungselite KAthe Truhel and the idea of a social bureaucracy Nathalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal: the genealogy of women's movements Jacob Katz…