Philip Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 265960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2468-5679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge
This paper re‐examines a key feature of Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge from a critical realist perspective. It is argued that Durkheim's attempt to establish a social basis for the categories in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life should be understood along ontological rather than epistemological lines. This brings to light new problems with the argument which, however, can be brought fruitfully into contact with the more recent socia…
Horizons of Phenomenology
Horizons of Phenomenology
This edited volume and open access book explores phenomenology as a diverse movement in philosophy and as an active research method
Emotions, personhood and social ontology
This paper addresses the question of the relations between emotions and personhood, with a view to advancing a critical realist account of the role of emotions in social life. It is argued that the constitution of persons has to be approached from an ontological perspective, and that this raises questions about how sociology has addressed the meaning and role of emotions. Margaret Archer's critical realist perspective on them as commentaries on h…
Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)
Hannah Arendt was a key intellectual figure of the twentieth century, whose writings have impacted philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences. Although she held sociology in low regard, her ideas have had significant influence within the field. Her engagements with totalitarianism, social movements, power, politics, morality, evil, and the self have shaped how sociologists have taken up these subjects, and her style of theorizing prese…
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Anne Dacier (née Le Fèvre) produced a French translation of Clouds and Plutus in 1684 which ensured that the vernacular reader could read two complete plays of Aristophanes in French for the first time. It was as a particularly bold undertaking, given the limited work in this area before her and this comic playwright's unfavourable reputation in 17th-century France. Her work gained relatively little immediate attention by reviewers and enjoyed on…
The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic
This 1911 publication, translated from the French, vividly describes the varied hardships and satisfactions of Antarctic exploration and scientific research in the early twentieth century. Son of the famed neurologist, Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) commanded the Pourquoi-Pas? on its hazardous journey into the ice-bound regions south of Cape Horn. Illustrated with numerous photographs, his journal entries provide a rich account of daily life a…
Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic
On Post-Philosophical Sociology
This article responds to Richard Kilminster’s critique of my earlier article published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2014), which raised questions about the status and limits of Norbert Elias’s sociology of knowledge. The article takes issue with Kilminster’s claim that the earlier piece identified “fatal” flaws in Elias’s approach and aimed at re-asserting philosophical authority over the social sciences. It is argued that, on the contra…
Is a Post-philosophical Sociology Possible? Insights from Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Knowledge
This article investigates the status of Norbert Elias’s conception of the sociology of knowledge as the means to provide a new epistemological security for sociology. The author of the article argues that this translates into an effective critique of the underlaboring model of the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences, which is consistent with Elias’s attempt to consolidate his own sociological theory. Nevertheless, the author a…
Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science
N orbert Elias and Hannah Arendt are both major twentieth-century thinkers, lionized for their striking and powerfully original visions. Yet rarely are they treated together or their perspectives compared. The foremost reason for this is doubtless the sharply divergent ways in which they both conceived of the value and significance of sociology. Elias was, throughout his life, an indefatigable defender of the discipline, seeking to promote its au…
Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science
Knowledge and the constitution of society
This paper discusses the roots of knowledge society theory - an emerging paradigm within theoretical sociology - in classical sociology of knowledge, and draws some conclusions about the former's validity, relevance and shortcomings. The paper first presents a framework for understanding the development of classical sociology of knowledge, and positions knowledge society theory within this tradition by connecting it to the earlier theory of post-…
The Human Condition as social ontology
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from "society," and political theory from the social sciences. This conventional view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of "society" and the significance of the social sciences. In this article, I argue that Hannah Arendt's distinctions between labor, work, and action, as these …
Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social theory
Herbert Marcuse's vision of liberation from the ‘affluent society’ constitutes one of the most significant interventions into public life of any philosopher in the last half of the 20th century. Yet his major works are little read today in philosophy departments in North America, where, if first-generation Frankfurt School critical theory is on the menu, it is usually represented by the work of Theodor W. Adorno. Within North American and, to a l…
Hannah Arendt, Sociology and Political Modernity
Hannah Arendt has only rarely been regarded as an important critic of sociology, and is generally classified as a political theorist. This article argues that Arendt's engagement with the theoretical foundations of sociology both constitutes an important critique of certain sociological tendencies derived from its classical origins and is central to understanding the development of her own social and political thought. Arendt's theory of activity…
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), where he spent his entire life, first as a student and Privatdozent , later as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg. The fourth child of an intensely religious family, Kant rose beyond his humble origins – his father was a harness‐maker – to become one of the most important figures of the European Enlightenment. His trilogy of main works, the Criti…
Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory
This book examines the issue of philosophical skepticism in the light of its relevance for the critique of modernity associated with the Frankfurt School. It situates the problem of skepticism in the
Skepticism, modernity, and critical theory
This book argues for the importance of understanding the relationship of critical theory to key nineteenth-century thinkers in terms of the problem of skepticism. In so doing, it reconstructs and realigns the history of skepticism, exploring its meaning and significance within ancient and modern philosophy, and uncovers a major and hitherto under-explored line of continuity between the critical theory paradigm and post-Kantian philosophy."--Jacke…
Retaking the Universe
Retaking The Universe
Foreword: Jennie Skerl Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words - Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh Part I: Theoretical Depositions 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory - Allen Hibbard 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists - Timothy S. Murphy 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist - Philip Walsh 4. Speculating Freedom:…
Assessment as Critical Praxis
Jeanne Cameron, Tina Stavenhagen-Helgren, Philip Walsh, Barbara Kobritz, Assessment as Critical Praxis: A Community College Experience, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 414-429
The Voyage of the "Why Not?" in the Antarctic
Assessment as Critical Praxis
Jeanne Cameron, Tina Stavenhagen-Helgren, Philip Walsh, Barbara Kobritz, Assessment as Critical Praxis: A Community College Experience, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 414-429
The Human Condition as social ontology
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from "society," and political theory from the social sciences. This conventional view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of "society" and the significance of the social sciences. In this article, I argue that Hannah Arendt's distinctions between labor, work, and action, as these …
Hannah Arendt, Sociology and Political Modernity
Hannah Arendt has only rarely been regarded as an important critic of sociology, and is generally classified as a political theorist. This article argues that Arendt's engagement with the theoretical foundations of sociology both constitutes an important critique of certain sociological tendencies derived from its classical origins and is central to understanding the development of her own social and political thought. Arendt's theory of activity…
Is a Post-philosophical Sociology Possible? Insights from Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Knowledge
This article investigates the status of Norbert Elias’s conception of the sociology of knowledge as the means to provide a new epistemological security for sociology. The author of the article argues that this translates into an effective critique of the underlaboring model of the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences, which is consistent with Elias’s attempt to consolidate his own sociological theory. Nevertheless, the author a…
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Anne Dacier (née Le Fèvre) produced a French translation of Clouds and Plutus in 1684 which ensured that the vernacular reader could read two complete plays of Aristophanes in French for the first time. It was as a particularly bold undertaking, given the limited work in this area before her and this comic playwright's unfavourable reputation in 17th-century France. Her work gained relatively little immediate attention by reviewers and enjoyed on…
The Voyage of the "Why Not?" in the Antarctic
Assessment as Critical Praxis
Jeanne Cameron, Tina Stavenhagen-Helgren, Philip Walsh, Barbara Kobritz, Assessment as Critical Praxis: A Community College Experience, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 414-429
Retaking the Universe
Retaking The Universe
Foreword: Jennie Skerl Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words - Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh Part I: Theoretical Depositions 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory - Allen Hibbard 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists - Timothy S. Murphy 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist - Philip Walsh 4. Speculating Freedom:…
Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory
This book examines the issue of philosophical skepticism in the light of its relevance for the critique of modernity associated with the Frankfurt School. It situates the problem of skepticism in the
Skepticism, modernity, and critical theory
This book argues for the importance of understanding the relationship of critical theory to key nineteenth-century thinkers in terms of the problem of skepticism. In so doing, it reconstructs and realigns the history of skepticism, exploring its meaning and significance within ancient and modern philosophy, and uncovers a major and hitherto under-explored line of continuity between the critical theory paradigm and post-Kantian philosophy."--Jacke…
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), where he spent his entire life, first as a student and Privatdozent , later as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg. The fourth child of an intensely religious family, Kant rose beyond his humble origins – his father was a harness‐maker – to become one of the most important figures of the European Enlightenment. His trilogy of main works, the Criti…
Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social theory
Herbert Marcuse's vision of liberation from the ‘affluent society’ constitutes one of the most significant interventions into public life of any philosopher in the last half of the 20th century. Yet his major works are little read today in philosophy departments in North America, where, if first-generation Frankfurt School critical theory is on the menu, it is usually represented by the work of Theodor W. Adorno. Within North American and, to a l…
Hannah Arendt, Sociology and Political Modernity
Hannah Arendt has only rarely been regarded as an important critic of sociology, and is generally classified as a political theorist. This article argues that Arendt's engagement with the theoretical foundations of sociology both constitutes an important critique of certain sociological tendencies derived from its classical origins and is central to understanding the development of her own social and political thought. Arendt's theory of activity…
The Human Condition as social ontology
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from "society," and political theory from the social sciences. This conventional view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of "society" and the significance of the social sciences. In this article, I argue that Hannah Arendt's distinctions between labor, work, and action, as these …
Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science
N orbert Elias and Hannah Arendt are both major twentieth-century thinkers, lionized for their striking and powerfully original visions. Yet rarely are they treated together or their perspectives compared. The foremost reason for this is doubtless the sharply divergent ways in which they both conceived of the value and significance of sociology. Elias was, throughout his life, an indefatigable defender of the discipline, seeking to promote its au…
Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science
Knowledge and the constitution of society
This paper discusses the roots of knowledge society theory - an emerging paradigm within theoretical sociology - in classical sociology of knowledge, and draws some conclusions about the former's validity, relevance and shortcomings. The paper first presents a framework for understanding the development of classical sociology of knowledge, and positions knowledge society theory within this tradition by connecting it to the earlier theory of post-…
Is a Post-philosophical Sociology Possible? Insights from Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Knowledge
This article investigates the status of Norbert Elias’s conception of the sociology of knowledge as the means to provide a new epistemological security for sociology. The author of the article argues that this translates into an effective critique of the underlaboring model of the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences, which is consistent with Elias’s attempt to consolidate his own sociological theory. Nevertheless, the author a…
The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic
This 1911 publication, translated from the French, vividly describes the varied hardships and satisfactions of Antarctic exploration and scientific research in the early twentieth century. Son of the famed neurologist, Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) commanded the Pourquoi-Pas? on its hazardous journey into the ice-bound regions south of Cape Horn. Illustrated with numerous photographs, his journal entries provide a rich account of daily life a…
Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic
On Post-Philosophical Sociology
This article responds to Richard Kilminster’s critique of my earlier article published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2014), which raised questions about the status and limits of Norbert Elias’s sociology of knowledge. The article takes issue with Kilminster’s claim that the earlier piece identified “fatal” flaws in Elias’s approach and aimed at re-asserting philosophical authority over the social sciences. It is argued that, on the contra…
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Anne Dacier (née Le Fèvre) produced a French translation of Clouds and Plutus in 1684 which ensured that the vernacular reader could read two complete plays of Aristophanes in French for the first time. It was as a particularly bold undertaking, given the limited work in this area before her and this comic playwright's unfavourable reputation in 17th-century France. Her work gained relatively little immediate attention by reviewers and enjoyed on…
Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)
Hannah Arendt was a key intellectual figure of the twentieth century, whose writings have impacted philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences. Although she held sociology in low regard, her ideas have had significant influence within the field. Her engagements with totalitarianism, social movements, power, politics, morality, evil, and the self have shaped how sociologists have taken up these subjects, and her style of theorizing prese…
Emotions, personhood and social ontology
This paper addresses the question of the relations between emotions and personhood, with a view to advancing a critical realist account of the role of emotions in social life. It is argued that the constitution of persons has to be approached from an ontological perspective, and that this raises questions about how sociology has addressed the meaning and role of emotions. Margaret Archer's critical realist perspective on them as commentaries on h…
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge
This paper re‐examines a key feature of Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge from a critical realist perspective. It is argued that Durkheim's attempt to establish a social basis for the categories in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life should be understood along ontological rather than epistemological lines. This brings to light new problems with the argument which, however, can be brought fruitfully into contact with the more recent socia…
Horizons of Phenomenology
Horizons of Phenomenology
This edited volume and open access book explores phenomenology as a diverse movement in philosophy and as an active research method
Epistemology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (5 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works)