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  • Learning from Franz L. Neumann

    Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life

    by David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland ...
    Series series
    Franz Neumann was a member of a generation that saw the end of the Kaiserreich and the beginnings of a democratic republic carried by the labor movement. In Neumann’s case, this involved a practical and professional commitment, first, to the trade union movement and, second, to the Social Democratic Party that gave it political articulation. For Neumann, to be a labor lawyer in the sense developed ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adam Ferguson

    His Social and Political Thought

    by David Kettler ...
    The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism

    The Secret of These New Times

    by David Kettler, Volker Meja ...
    To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is infernal) of these new times." Mannheim's aim was "to carry liberal values forward." His problem remains irresistible to reflective people at the end of the twentieth century. Mannheim attempted to ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Learning from Franz L. Neumann

    Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life

    by David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland ...
    Series series
    Franz Neumann was a member of a generation that saw the end of the Kaiserreich and the beginnings of a democratic republic carried by the labor movement. In Neumann’s case, this involved a practical and professional commitment, first, to the trade union movement and, second, to the Social Democratic Party that gave it political articulation. For Neumann, to be a labor lawyer in the sense developed ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning from Franz L. Neumann

    Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life

    by David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new conception of democracy as a vehicle of social change. A remarkably effective teacher in the last years of his life, Neumann was also a gifted learner, whose ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber

    Retrieving a Research Programme

    by David Kettler, Colin Loader, Volker Meja ...
    Series series Rethinking Classical Sociology
    This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research programme. The authors show how contemporary work along these lines can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy. It returns Mannheim's sociology of knowledge inquiries ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim

    Edited by Volker Meja, David Kettler ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Karl Mannheim is a classic of sociology. “The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” helps us to accompany him in his open, experimental thinking, the generation of new questions, the recognition of thought experiments as well as the care for controlling evidence, and his negotiations with colleagues he encounters in his own searches. This is not simply to dismiss the elements brought together by ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim

    Edited by Volker Meja, David Kettler ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    The Hungarian-born Karl Mannheim became recognized as a pathbreaking sociologist in Germany when he published 'Ideologie und Utopie' (1929) and in the English-speaking world upon publication of 'Ideology and Utopia' (1936), a book in which he explored the possibilities of an approach to political thought by way of sociology of knowledge. Eighty years later, and viewed from varied substance-rich ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim

    Edited by Volker Meja, David Kettler ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Karl Mannheim is a classic of sociology. “The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim” helps us to accompany him in his open, experimental thinking, the generation of new questions, the recognition of thought experiments as well as the care for controlling evidence, and his negotiations with colleagues he encounters in his own searches. This is not simply to dismiss the elements brought together by ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Cultural Criticism and the Historian's Debate

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  • Arendt and Adorno

    Political and Philosophical Investigations

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    Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find ... Read more

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