Michael A Weinstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 266300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Weinstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinstein |
| SIGNATURE | WEINSTEIN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Postmodernized Simmel
1. Introductions Part One Simmel as postmodernist 2. Georg Simmel: sociological flaneur bricoleur 3. Simmel/Derrida: Deconstruction as symbolic play Part Two Postmodern Simmel 4. Simmel and the dialectic of the double boundary: The case of 'the metropolis and mental life' 5. Dimensions of conflict: Georg Simmel on modern life 6. Simmel and the theory of postmodern society Part Three Postmodernized Simmel 7. Deconstruction as cultural history/the …
So That All Shall Know/Para que todos lo sepan: Photographs by Daniel Hernández-Salazar [Fotografías por Daniel Hernández-Salazar]
How does an artist respond to the horrors of war and the genocide of his or her people? Can art play a role in the fight for justice? These are key questions for understanding the work of Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Since the 1980s, Hernández-Salazar has created both documentary and aesthetic works that confront the state-sponsored terrorism and mass killings of Guatemala's long civil war (1962-1996). His photographic polypt…
The Power of Silence and Limits of Discourse at Oliver Wendell Holmes's Breakfast-Table
Mark Gibian's major study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.'s political theory casts Holmes as a democratic pluralist in the line of Richard Rorty who instantiates his commitment in the literary form of untrammeled table talk. Gibian's thesis can be challenged through a close reading of Holmes's main political work, The Professor at the Breakfast Table , revealing that Holmes's defense of free expression as the core of American national identity is c…
Hail to the Shrub: Mediating the Presidency
With regard to the American presidency, the prestige media perform the primary function of nonpartisan interested mediation between the president and his supporters and the loyal opposition to the president. This article draws on the formal sociology of Georg Simmel as a theoretical background, the American prestige newspapers as a resource, and the presidency of G. W. Bush before and immediately after 9/11/01 as a case study. When, as in the ins…
Virtual Bataille
Data crash apocalypse and global economic crisis
1999). Data crash apocalypse and global economic crisis. Angelaki: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 91-94
Books in review
Postmodern(ized) Simmel
Data trash: The theory of the virtual class
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A Blend of Contradictions: Georg Simmel in Theory and Practice
The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture. George Kateb Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Democratic Self. Jack Crittenden
Postmodernizing (Macro)sociology
A selective appropriation of postmodernist theories is undertaken with special reference to their applicability to macrosociology and to other branches of sociological inquiry that employ conceptions of social and cultural totality. The appropriation is premised on the thesis that theories of culture, such as postmodernism, can contribute to sociology by their analyses of cultural form, providing sociology with general descriptions of what social…
Photographic realism as a moral practice
Economists and the Media
When my colleagues at The New York Times use the word "academic," they intend no compliment; they mean irrelevant. And when my former colleagues in the academy describe someone's work as "journalistic," they invariably mean shallow. One way to frame discussion for this symposium is to ask how well economists who deal with the media bridge the gap between thoughtful irrelevance and engrossing superficiality. From my vantage point, the answer is re…
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins is a special triple issue celebrating the 15th year of publication of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. This text is also Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 &3 (1991)
Georg Simmel: Sociological Flâneur Bricoleur
Dimensions of Conflict: Georg Simmel on Modern Life
Deconstruction as Symbolic Play: Simmel/Derrida
At the end of his writing, "La Différance," Jacques Derrida deconstructs his text by taking on an authoritative rhetorical tone. Reflecting back on his discussion of metaphysics, Derrida announces that "(t)here will be no unique name, even if it were the name of Being". And then he takes a surprising phenomeno-logical turn and advocates a privileged attitude or disposition towards his reflection:And we must think this without nostalgia, that is, …
Heidegger's Pragmatism: Understanding, being, and the critique of metaphysics
Simmel and the Dialectic of the Double Boundary: The Case of the Metropolis and Mental Life
George Simmel's sociology was only one expression of his overall project of understanding the modern human condition. Works such as 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' have been appropriated by sociology for their substantive insights. These works are more fully understood when they are interpreted in terms of Simmel's late philosophical writings, which are based on an image of man as standing between boundaries and therefore of being a boundary for…
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Culture Critique: Fernand Dumont and New Quebec Sociology
Culture Critique; Fernand Dumont and New Quebec Sociology
This series title was created by CTheory Books - http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/ This title was digitized by CTheory Books in 2001
Disconnected Moralizing Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen , Ann Swidler , William M. Sullivan , Steven M. Tipton
On the visual constitution of society: The contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean-Paul Sartre to a sociology of the senses
1984). On the visual constitution of society: The contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean-Paul Sartre to a sociology of the senses. History of European Ideas: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 349-362
Georg Simmel: Sociological Flâneur Bricoleur
Postmodernized Simmel
1. Introductions Part One Simmel as postmodernist 2. Georg Simmel: sociological flaneur bricoleur 3. Simmel/Derrida: Deconstruction as symbolic play Part Two Postmodern Simmel 4. Simmel and the dialectic of the double boundary: The case of 'the metropolis and mental life' 5. Dimensions of conflict: Georg Simmel on modern life 6. Simmel and the theory of postmodern society Part Three Postmodernized Simmel 7. Deconstruction as cultural history/the …
On the visual constitution of society: The contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean-Paul Sartre to a sociology of the senses
1984). On the visual constitution of society: The contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean-Paul Sartre to a sociology of the senses. History of European Ideas: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 349-362
Simmel and the Dialectic of the Double Boundary: The Case of the Metropolis and Mental Life
George Simmel's sociology was only one expression of his overall project of understanding the modern human condition. Works such as 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' have been appropriated by sociology for their substantive insights. These works are more fully understood when they are interpreted in terms of Simmel's late philosophical writings, which are based on an image of man as standing between boundaries and therefore of being a boundary for…
Postmodernizing (Macro)sociology
A selective appropriation of postmodernist theories is undertaken with special reference to their applicability to macrosociology and to other branches of sociological inquiry that employ conceptions of social and cultural totality. The appropriation is premised on the thesis that theories of culture, such as postmodernism, can contribute to sociology by their analyses of cultural form, providing sociology with general descriptions of what social…
Economists and the Media
When my colleagues at The New York Times use the word "academic," they intend no compliment; they mean irrelevant. And when my former colleagues in the academy describe someone's work as "journalistic," they invariably mean shallow. One way to frame discussion for this symposium is to ask how well economists who deal with the media bridge the gap between thoughtful irrelevance and engrossing superficiality. From my vantage point, the answer is re…
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
An existential approach to society: Active transcendence
Culture Critique: Fernand Dumont and New Quebec Sociology
Freud On the Problem of Order: The Revival of Hobbes
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Freud addresses the problem of how groups are formed or of how society is possible. The question of the possibility of society presupposes that in some sense human beings are not thoroughly social beings, that they must agree to or be made to participate in a common life in which they submit to general principles regulating their conduct towards one another. The notion that the grounds for social or…
The Popularization of Sociology and the Received Tradition
The Inclusive Polity: New Directions in Political Theory Usual Politics . By George D. Beam Political Morality . By Philip S. Haring Open Systems . By Henry S. Kariel The New Democratic Theory . By Ke…
Blau's Dialectical Sociology
The focus of Blau's dialectical sociology is the notion that human organization is characterized by dilemmas, such as the freedom-order problem. Dilemmas are inherent in social existence and underlie conflict and change. Blau's dialectic of conflict can be supplemented by dialectics of cooperation to make a more comprehensive theory
Behavioralism in Political Science
The paradox of representation: Criticism
The R and D contract and democratic theory
Life and politics as plural: James and Bentley on the twentieth century problem
A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theories
A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theories
Towards a New Role for Sociologists: Morris Ginsberg on Sociology and Social Philosophy
Further Reflections on Blau's Dialectical Sociology
Blau's Dialectical Sociology
The focus of Blau's dialectical sociology is the notion that human organization is characterized by dilemmas, such as the freedom-order problem. Dilemmas are inherent in social existence and underlie conflict and change. Blau's dialectic of conflict can be supplemented by dialectics of cooperation to make a more comprehensive theory
The Sociology of Public Morality: Talcott Parsons and Phenomenology
(1973). The Sociology of Public Morality: Talcott Parsons and Phenomenology. Sociological Focus: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 10-31
New Ways and Old to Talk About Politics
This article will sketch a political science that is founded on principles different from those underlying the discipline at present. The major thesis is that contemporary American political science is Newtonian and interactionist in orientation in a world in which scientific thought has become field-oriented and transactionist. Political scientists are still primarily concerned with defining abstract units of analysis and exploring the relations…
The Inclusive Polity: New Directions in Political Theory Usual Politics . By George D. Beam Political Morality . By Philip S. Haring Open Systems . By Henry S. Kariel The New Democratic Theory . By Ke…
Utopian Pluralism: A Review Essay On Recent Contributions
Vasconselos on analogy and the appreciation of world-views
Unamuno and the Agonies of Modernization
A neglected issue in the study of modernization is how the person transfers his pursuit of ultimate ends and meanings from religious to secular perspectives. If one could speak of a modern paradigm, it would include, at a minimum, commitments to rationalism and immanence. Unifying debates between classical rationalists and empiricists, Marxists and positivists, and idealists and realists, is the notion that some form of human reason is the court …
Civility and Disobedience. Burton Zwiebach
The Popularization of Sociology and the Received Tradition
An existential approach to society: Active transcendence
Freud On the Problem of Order: The Revival of Hobbes
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Freud addresses the problem of how groups are formed or of how society is possible. The question of the possibility of society presupposes that in some sense human beings are not thoroughly social beings, that they must agree to or be made to participate in a common life in which they submit to general principles regulating their conduct towards one another. The notion that the grounds for social or…
Meaning and Appreciation: Time and Modern Political Life
The great crisis of twentieth-century philosophy has been the loss of meaning as a criterion for conduct. With the collapse of the historical sociologies of the nineteenth century and their replacement by relativistic doctrines, contemporary thought has retreated to the fleeting present moment as the ground for describing action. In Meaning and Appreciation, Michael Weinstein traces the history of the failure of historical meaning, showing how th…
The Polarity of Mexican Thought: Instrumentalism and Finalism
The Polarity of Mexican Thought: Instrumentalism and Finalism
Freud's Encounter with Religion: A Study in Bad Faith
The interaction of law and religion
(1982). The interaction of law and religion. History of European Ideas: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 117-121
On the possibility of society: Classical sociological thought
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