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The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn Book

The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn
The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn, This edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff, a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim, practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of t, The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn has a rating of 3 stars
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  • The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn
  • Written by author Gary Backhaus
  • Published by Lexington Books, February 2007
  • This edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff, a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim, practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of t
  • This is the first volume to present commentaries on the existential sociology of Kurt H. Wolff_including autobiographical, biographical, exegetic, and creative developmental articulation of his radical thought. The theme of the book connects Wolff to the
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Figures     ix
Preface     xi
Introduction and Overview: Amidst the Processual   Gary Backhaus   George Psathas     vii
Memorials and Reminiscences
Biographical Profiles: Testimonies from the Heart   Gary Backhaus   George Psathas     3
Places and Continents   Carla E. Wolff   Gary Backhaus     19
Locating Kurt H. Wolff in the History of Sociological Thought
How I Came to Sociology and Who I Am: A Conversation with Kurt H. Wolff   Nico Stehr     37
The Intellectuals' Context: Wolff's Diagnosis and Response Introduction: Reflexive Unmasking and the Tradition   Gary Backhaus     63
Kurt Wolff's Work and its Place in Twentieth-Century Social Thought   Joy Gordon
Kurt H. Wolff and Sociology   Jonathan B. Imber
Substantive Reason Versus Instrumental Reason: Wolff's Rejection of Modern Scientia Introduction: What's Cognitive Love Have to Do With It?   Gary Backhaus     77
Kurt Wolff's Epistemology of the Heart   Stephen Kalberg
Surrender and Catch and the Question of Reason: Kurt Wolff and John Macmurray   Eleanor Godway
Karl Mannheim in America: The Loyalty of Kurt H. Wolff   David Kettler   Volker Meja     93
Existential Truths as Prerequisites for a Globalizing Discourse Theory   PeterLudes     115
Scope and Limits of Wolff's World of "Surrender"   Hisashi Nasu     137
Inspirations and Further Developments of Kurt H. Wolff's Thought
It's the Body that Matters   Richard M. Zaner     155
Surrender-and-Catch and Modern Political Power     171
Individual Transcendence, Media Transformations, and Collective Experiences: An Introduction to my 1984 Interview with Kurt H. Wolff   Peter Ludes
Surrender-and-Catch and Charismatic Authority: An Interview with Kurt H. Wolff   Kurt H. Wolff   Peter Ludes
Presuppositional Surrender-To: Theoretical Explication and a Case Study   Gary Backhaus     181
Life After Kurt H. Wolff: A Case Study of Surrendering-to-Surrender   Gary Backhaus     199
Index     215
About the Contributors     225


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