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ISBN 10: 1032045256

ISBN 13: 9781032045252

Author: Richard Kilminster

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 standard histories of sociology with new insights, it offers incisive evaluations of some of the bewildered attempts by prominent sociologists to diagnose the malaise of contemporary globalised society. It also challenges the orthodox limitation of the empirical scope of sociology to ‘modernity’. With its ominous warnings of the destructive prevalence of ‘overcritique’ in the discipline and lack of in-depth sociological psychology, Post-Philosophical Sociology will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychoanalysis, social philosophy, cultural theory and social and political theory with interests in developmental and dynamic thinking and the history of the discipline.

Post Philosophical Sociology Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge 1st Table of contents:

PART I Figurational-process sociology: synthesis and vocation

1 The dawn of detachment: Norbert Elias and sociology’s two Tracks

Introduction: Elias’s perspective as a world view

Elias and ‘the peculiar enigma of society’

Emerging disciplinary insights

The birth of the two Tracks

The sociogenesis of intransigent opposition

Karl Marx or Lorenz von Stein?

Conclusion

Notes

References

2 Karl Marx: new perspectives

Introduction: Marx and Marxism

The sociogenesis of Marx’s world view

The Theses on Feuerbach reconsidered

Marx and the institutionalisation of sociology

Conclusion

Notes

References

3 Norbert Elias’s post-philosophical sociology: from ‘critique’ to relative detachment

Introduction

The sociological mission

From philosophy to sociology

The detour via detachment

Restructuring or transcending philosophy?

On being ‘critical’: code words and modernity blaming

‘Critical’ inquiries in Kant and Hegel

Critical Theory or ‘detour via detachment’?

Conclusion: secondary involvement and the anticipatory motif

Notes

References

4 How has post-philosophical sociology become possible?

Introduction

Sociologists and philosophers: who does what?

The assault on process

Conclusion

Note

References

5 From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias’s theory of involvement and detachment

Introduction: after Weber

Weber scrutinised: Mannheim, Kris and Elias

Involvement and detachment as a balance

Secondary involvement and the sociological vocation

Concluding remarks: detachment in a new key

Notes

References

PART II Overcritique or social diagnosis?

6 Critique and overcritique in sociology

Introduction

‘Critical’ as a code-word

Sources of ‘critique’: Hegel, Marx and Western Marxism

Zygmunt Bauman and the allure of transcendence

Conclusion: sociological implications

Notes

References

7 Overcritique and ambiguity in Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology: a long-term perspective

Introduction

Sociology’s two tracks and sociological psychology

Marxism and partisanship

From Marx to modernity

Bauman and dialectics

Conclusion: the quicksands of ambivalence

Notes

References

8 Narcissism or informalisation? Christopher Lasch, Norbert Elias and social diagnosis

Introduction

Social diagnosis and the pitfalls of rationalism

The concept of Narcissism and its history

Lasch’s mode of persuasion

Informalisation: social and psychic aspects

Conclusion: affect-management and the super-ego

Notes

References

9 Informalisation, sociological theory and social diagnosis

Introduction

Sociology, para-sociology and informalisation

(1) Neo-tribes: the decline of individualism?

(2) Reflexive modernisation as political conceit

(3) Liquid Marxism: the Pyrrhic victory of metaphor over evidence

Concluding reflections

Notes

References

ADDENDUM: on the process of becoming a sociologist

Introduction

A multi-disciplinary curriculum

Sociology and philosophy

Democratisation and anomie

Intimations of overcritique

‘There will be an answer, let it be’ (Beatles)

Sociology pride: the legacy of Elias at Leicester

Sociology as pure theory: Zygmunt Bauman and the University of Leeds

Concluding reflections

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