Alan R How
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 376170 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan R How |
| PRENOMES | Alan R |
| SOBRENOME | How |
| ASSINATURA | HOW A R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Worcester |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Restoring the Classic in Sociology
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in s
Hermeneutics and the ‘classic’ problem in the human sciences
There has been a long-standing and acrimonious debate in the human sciences over the role played by classic texts. Advocates of the classic insist its value is timeless and rests on the intrinsic superiority of its cognitive insights and aesthetic virtues. Critics, by contrast, argue that the respect accorded the classic is spurious because it conceals the ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities of tradition. This article seeks a so…
The Author, the Text and the Canon
The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authority of classics has been challenged on the grounds that they conceal a variety of ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities as well as being far removed from our experience of contemporary life. Drawing on Gadamer's account of the 'classical' in Truth and Method, the article contests these views, arguing that classic texts are a source o…
Critical Theory
Habermas, History and Social Evolution
In recent times, under the influence of postmodernist thought sociology has largely rejected the idea of social evolution. An exception to this trend is to be found in the work of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas's account of social evolution has received some critical attention, but in sociology wider detail of the picture is not well known. Habermas wishes to hold to the possibility that evolutionary progress can be discerned not only in the sphere of…
Alternative Modernity
(2000). Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory, by Andrew Feenberg. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 217-218
That's Classic! A Gadamerian Defence of the Classic Text in Sociology
Many in sociology believe the discipline to be ill served by its classic authors, and that there are now good strategic and cognitive reasons to dispense with the canon. To some, in this more heterogeneous, postmodern world, Marx, Weber and Durkheim have outlived their usefulness and inhibit rather than encourage the growth of sociology. Using Gadamer's hermeneutics as a resource this paper challenges such claims, arguing instead that classic tex…
The Habermas-Gadamer Debate and the Nature of the Social
A Case of Creative Misreading
Debate, Language and Incommensurability
The controversy between Popper and Adorno at the conference held by the German Sociological Association at Tübingen in 1961, brought into focus issues that had been simmering for some years, and which were to go far beyond methodological dispute, into the foundational question of the relation between theory and society. The concept of totality and its concomitant totalitarian moral implications provide the initial focus, and it is argued that the…
Restoring the Classic in Sociology
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in s
The Habermas-Gadamer Debate and the Nature of the Social
Habermas, History and Social Evolution
In recent times, under the influence of postmodernist thought sociology has largely rejected the idea of social evolution. An exception to this trend is to be found in the work of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas's account of social evolution has received some critical attention, but in sociology wider detail of the picture is not well known. Habermas wishes to hold to the possibility that evolutionary progress can be discerned not only in the sphere of…
The Author, the Text and the Canon
The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authority of classics has been challenged on the grounds that they conceal a variety of ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities as well as being far removed from our experience of contemporary life. Drawing on Gadamer's account of the 'classical' in Truth and Method, the article contests these views, arguing that classic texts are a source o…
Hermeneutics and the ‘classic’ problem in the human sciences
There has been a long-standing and acrimonious debate in the human sciences over the role played by classic texts. Advocates of the classic insist its value is timeless and rests on the intrinsic superiority of its cognitive insights and aesthetic virtues. Critics, by contrast, argue that the respect accorded the classic is spurious because it conceals the ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities of tradition. This article seeks a so…
That's Classic! A Gadamerian Defence of the Classic Text in Sociology
Many in sociology believe the discipline to be ill served by its classic authors, and that there are now good strategic and cognitive reasons to dispense with the canon. To some, in this more heterogeneous, postmodern world, Marx, Weber and Durkheim have outlived their usefulness and inhibit rather than encourage the growth of sociology. Using Gadamer's hermeneutics as a resource this paper challenges such claims, arguing instead that classic tex…
Debate, Language and Incommensurability
The controversy between Popper and Adorno at the conference held by the German Sociological Association at Tübingen in 1961, brought into focus issues that had been simmering for some years, and which were to go far beyond methodological dispute, into the foundational question of the relation between theory and society. The concept of totality and its concomitant totalitarian moral implications provide the initial focus, and it is argued that the…
Debate, Language and Incommensurability
The controversy between Popper and Adorno at the conference held by the German Sociological Association at Tübingen in 1961, brought into focus issues that had been simmering for some years, and which were to go far beyond methodological dispute, into the foundational question of the relation between theory and society. The concept of totality and its concomitant totalitarian moral implications provide the initial focus, and it is argued that the…
A Case of Creative Misreading
The Habermas-Gadamer Debate and the Nature of the Social
That's Classic! A Gadamerian Defence of the Classic Text in Sociology
Many in sociology believe the discipline to be ill served by its classic authors, and that there are now good strategic and cognitive reasons to dispense with the canon. To some, in this more heterogeneous, postmodern world, Marx, Weber and Durkheim have outlived their usefulness and inhibit rather than encourage the growth of sociology. Using Gadamer's hermeneutics as a resource this paper challenges such claims, arguing instead that classic tex…
Alternative Modernity
(2000). Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory, by Andrew Feenberg. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 217-218
Habermas, History and Social Evolution
In recent times, under the influence of postmodernist thought sociology has largely rejected the idea of social evolution. An exception to this trend is to be found in the work of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas's account of social evolution has received some critical attention, but in sociology wider detail of the picture is not well known. Habermas wishes to hold to the possibility that evolutionary progress can be discerned not only in the sphere of…
Critical Theory
The Author, the Text and the Canon
The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authority of classics has been challenged on the grounds that they conceal a variety of ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities as well as being far removed from our experience of contemporary life. Drawing on Gadamer's account of the 'classical' in Truth and Method, the article contests these views, arguing that classic texts are a source o…
Hermeneutics and the ‘classic’ problem in the human sciences
There has been a long-standing and acrimonious debate in the human sciences over the role played by classic texts. Advocates of the classic insist its value is timeless and rests on the intrinsic superiority of its cognitive insights and aesthetic virtues. Critics, by contrast, argue that the respect accorded the classic is spurious because it conceals the ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities of tradition. This article seeks a so…
Restoring the Classic in Sociology
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in s
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