Post-Philosophical Sociology - Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

List of contents

Introduction: The Greatness of Sociology Part One – Figurational-Process Sociology: Synthesis and Vocation Chapter 1 The Dawn of Detachment: Norbert Elias and Sociology’s Two Tracks Chapter 2 Karl Marx: New Perspectives Chapter 3 Norbert Elias’s Post-Philosophical Sociology: From "Critique"to Relative Detachment Chapter 4 How Has a Post-Philosophical Sociology Become Possible? Chapter 5 From Distance to Detachment: Knowledge and Self-knowledge in Elias’s Theory of Involvement and Detachment Part Two – Overcritique or Social Diagnosis? Chapter 6 Critique and Overcritique in Sociology Chapter 7 Overcritique and Ambiguity in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology: A Long-Term Perspective Chapter 8 Narcissism or Informalization? Christopher Lasch, Norbert Elias and Social Diagnosis Chapter 9 Informalization, Sociological Theory and Social Diagnosis Addendum: On The Process of Becoming a Sociologist

Summary

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kilminster, Richard (University of Leeds Kilminster, Kilminster Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032045252
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204525-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Historiography, Society and culture: general