Richard Kilminster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 226716 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Kilminster |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Kilminster |
| ASSINATURA | KILMINSTER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Critique and overcritique in sociology
The concept of ‘overcritique’ is defined as a type of melodramatic, negative, one-sided and total critique of society, which developed in the latter part of the twentieth century out of the Critical Theory strand of Western Marxism. As an aid to understanding the notion the multiple meanings of the much used terms critique and critical in sociology and the humanities generally are clarified and their origins are traced in Kant, Hegel and Marx and…
Post-Philosophical Sociology
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon. Clarifying the contentious 'post-philosophical' aspects in order to supplement standar…
Narcissisme ou informalisation
Norbert elias and the sociology of education
The distinctive writings of Norbert Elias have inspired many researchers and continue to do so. Once the discovery of Elias in the 1970s and 1980s became established and his reputation grew as a so
How Has a Post-Philosophical Sociology Become Possible? A Response to Philip Walsh
This article responds to Philip Walsh’s defence (in the March 2014 issue, Vol. 44 (2): 179-200) of the traditional Lockean “underlaborer” conception of the role of philosophy against Norbert Elias’s sociology of knowledge. The article argues, contra Walsh, that the “post-philosophical” status of sociology is already a historical fait accompli. The author challenges Walsh’s contention that Elias’s perspectival sociological theory of knowledge is f…
Praxis and Method (RLE: Gramsci)
This sociological critique of the ‘philosophy of praxis’ looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukács, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel, and explores the validity and implications for sociology of two of Marx’s ideas which the later theorists made the centre piece of their social theory: fir…
The pitfalls of bombast
The dawn of detachment
This article draws on Elias’s observations on the origins of political economy and sociology as well as his theory of involvement and detachment to supplement standard accounts of the history of sociology. It shows how, in the 1840s, sociology bifurcated into two tracks. Track I was the highly ‘involved’ partisan track associated with Marx and Engels and track II was the relatively ‘detached’, non-partisan track pursued by Saint-Simon, Comte, Lor…
Praxis and Method
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
The aim of the comparison of Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim in this chapter is to contribute to our understanding of Elias by situating his theories and his wider sociological outlook as a development out of the German Wissenssoziologie movement. As is very well known, this school originated in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and 1930s, and Karl Mannheim was its principal representative and intellectual leader. As one of Mannheim's assistants, …
Norbert Elias
The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus
Norbert Elias's Post-Philosophical Sociology
This paper argues that Elias's work presupposes a radical abandonment of philosophy as a vestige of magical-mythical thinking that has been rendered obsolete by the rise of sociology. For Elias, attempts by philosophers to claim a continuing non-empirical area of investigation are spurious and reflect only professional interests. The origins of Elias's position are traced to his rejection of neo-Kantianism and his participation in the Wissenssozi…
Narcissism or Informalization
Christopher Lasch's influential 'culture of narcissism' thesis is shown to be an empirically unproven, conservative over-reaction to the 'permissive society' of the 1960s and 1970s. It is suggested that the theory of informalization developed by Elias, Wouters and Waldhoff provides a more complete and convincing analysis of that phenomenon and similar cultural developments. The shortcomings of Lasch's use of Freud, Klein and the clinical psychoan…
Norbert Elias
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, indi…
Norbert Elias
1. Understanding Elias 2. Origins of Elias's Synthesis 3. Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim 4. The Civilizing Process: The Structure of a Classic 5. Involved Detachment: Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Elias 6. The Symbol Theory: Secular Humanism as a Research Programme 7. Concluding Remarks: The Fourth Blow to Man's Narcissism
The Sociological Revolution
From distance to detachment
‘Detachment’ and ‘involvement’ belong to the not very large group of specialized concepts referring to the whole human person. (Norbert Elias 1987: xxxii) Introduction: after Weber Max Weber famously declared that the vocation of sociology requires that sociologists should suspend certain values in the pursuit of the ideal of ‘value-freedom’. It is obvious reading Elias's first systematic statement of his theory of involvement and detachment (Eli…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
The Sociological Revolution
Culture, Modernity and Revolution
In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems…
The Sociological Revolution
By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today
Karl Mannheim and the crisis of liberalism
Modern Social Theory
Outline of the theory of social domain the contours of everday life the social fabric examined power and control in modernity understanding social interaction lifeworld and system theory creativity and constraint in social life theory and empirical research
Modern Social Theory
Outline of the theory of social domain the contours of everday life the social fabric examined power and control in modernity understanding social interaction lifeworld and system theory creativity and constraint in social life theory and empirical research
Norbert Elias
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, indi…
The Sociological Revolution
By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today
Narcissism or Informalization
Christopher Lasch's influential 'culture of narcissism' thesis is shown to be an empirically unproven, conservative over-reaction to the 'permissive society' of the 1960s and 1970s. It is suggested that the theory of informalization developed by Elias, Wouters and Waldhoff provides a more complete and convincing analysis of that phenomenon and similar cultural developments. The shortcomings of Lasch's use of Freud, Klein and the clinical psychoan…
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
Norbert Elias's Post-Philosophical Sociology
This paper argues that Elias's work presupposes a radical abandonment of philosophy as a vestige of magical-mythical thinking that has been rendered obsolete by the rise of sociology. For Elias, attempts by philosophers to claim a continuing non-empirical area of investigation are spurious and reflect only professional interests. The origins of Elias's position are traced to his rejection of neo-Kantianism and his participation in the Wissenssozi…
From Philosophy to Sociology
Tracing Elias's intellectual debts is an interesting task, but not an easy one. Elias did not assign much priority to carefully delineating them and situating himself in relation to other writers and schools, in anything like the detail that, say, Parsons, Habermas, Bourdieu or Giddens have done. As Johan Goudsblom (1977:79) said, Elias managed to integrate through empirical research many seemingly incompatible perspectives into a 'workable synth…
Introduction to Elias
The Sociological Revolution
Evaluating Elias
The dawn of detachment
This article draws on Elias’s observations on the origins of political economy and sociology as well as his theory of involvement and detachment to supplement standard accounts of the history of sociology. It shows how, in the 1840s, sociology bifurcated into two tracks. Track I was the highly ‘involved’ partisan track associated with Marx and Engels and track II was the relatively ‘detached’, non-partisan track pursued by Saint-Simon, Comte, Lor…
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman
This article provides background material to help readers appreciate three speeches printed in this issue, given by Stefan Morawski, Dennis Smith and Hans Joas on the occasion of the presentation to Zygmunt Bauman of a Festschrift in March 1996 in Leeds. The article describes: (1) relevant details of Polish history concerning cultural patriotism, anti-state attitudes, the role of Jews in the communist state apparatus and anti-Semitism, focusing o…
Post-Philosophical Sociology
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon. Clarifying the contentious 'post-philosophical' aspects in order to supplement standar…
The pitfalls of bombast
The Limits of Transcendental Sociology
From the Standpoint of Eternity
Praxis and Method
Praxis and Method
Praxis and Method
From the Standpoint of Eternity
Introduction to Elias
Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge
The Limits of Transcendental Sociology
The Symbol Theory
Norbert Elias (1897-1990) Note on the text Introduction Towards a comprehensive understanding of human beings: reconfiguring sociology, evolutionary biology and philosophy Languages as learned sound patterns and symbols as the 'fifth dimension' 'Symbol emancipation' as an evolutionary breakthrough The high survival value of communication by learned sound-symbols To speak, to think, to know: the sociogenesis and psychogenesis of reality-congruent …
Evaluating Elias
The Society of Individuals
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
From Philosophy to Sociology
Tracing Elias's intellectual debts is an interesting task, but not an easy one. Elias did not assign much priority to carefully delineating them and situating himself in relation to other writers and schools, in anything like the detail that, say, Parsons, Habermas, Bourdieu or Giddens have done. As Johan Goudsblom (1977:79) said, Elias managed to integrate through empirical research many seemingly incompatible perspectives into a 'workable synth…
Karl Mannheim and the crisis of liberalism
Modern Social Theory
Outline of the theory of social domain the contours of everday life the social fabric examined power and control in modernity understanding social interaction lifeworld and system theory creativity and constraint in social life theory and empirical research
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman
This article provides background material to help readers appreciate three speeches printed in this issue, given by Stefan Morawski, Dennis Smith and Hans Joas on the occasion of the presentation to Zygmunt Bauman of a Festschrift in March 1996 in Leeds. The article describes: (1) relevant details of Polish history concerning cultural patriotism, anti-state attitudes, the role of Jews in the communist state apparatus and anti-Semitism, focusing o…
The Sociological Revolution
By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today
Culture, Modernity and Revolution
In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems…
The Sociological Revolution
From distance to detachment
‘Detachment’ and ‘involvement’ belong to the not very large group of specialized concepts referring to the whole human person. (Norbert Elias 1987: xxxii) Introduction: after Weber Max Weber famously declared that the vocation of sociology requires that sociologists should suspend certain values in the pursuit of the ideal of ‘value-freedom’. It is obvious reading Elias's first systematic statement of his theory of involvement and detachment (Eli…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
The Sociological Revolution
Norbert Elias
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, indi…
Norbert Elias
1. Understanding Elias 2. Origins of Elias's Synthesis 3. Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim 4. The Civilizing Process: The Structure of a Classic 5. Involved Detachment: Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Elias 6. The Symbol Theory: Secular Humanism as a Research Programme 7. Concluding Remarks: The Fourth Blow to Man's Narcissism
Narcissism or Informalization
Christopher Lasch's influential 'culture of narcissism' thesis is shown to be an empirically unproven, conservative over-reaction to the 'permissive society' of the 1960s and 1970s. It is suggested that the theory of informalization developed by Elias, Wouters and Waldhoff provides a more complete and convincing analysis of that phenomenon and similar cultural developments. The shortcomings of Lasch's use of Freud, Klein and the clinical psychoan…
Norbert Elias
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