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  • Society and Knowledge

    Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge and Science

    by Volker Meja ...
    The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products. Along with the sociology of science, it explores the social character of science and in particular the social production of scientific knowledge. Knowledge in all its varieties is of crucial importance in social, political, and economic relations in modern society. Yet new realities, the editors argue in ... Read more

    $97.55 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

  • 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

  • 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
    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

  • Modern German Sociology

    Edited by Volker Meja, Dieter Misgeld, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing figures as Theodor Adorno, Alexander Mitscherlich, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and Ralf Darendorf. The editors have arranged the essays into five sections that express their view of the chief aspects of ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Knowledge and Politics

    The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute

    Edited by Volker Meja, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a focus for a debate on the methodological and epistemological problems confronting German social science ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Introduction to Critical Theory

    Horkheimer to Habermas

    by David Held ...
    The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Pathologies of Reason

    On the Legacy of Critical Theory

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Translated by James Ingram ...
    Series Book 23 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Max Weber and Karl Marx

    by Karl Lowith ...
    Series series Routledge Classics in Sociology
    First Published in 2004. Lowith's study of Max Weber and Karl Marx is a key text in modem interpretations of the theme of alienation in Marxist theory and rationalisation in Weber's sociology. It remains the best short student introduction to the differences and comparisons between these essential thinkers. This new edition includes a Preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner which demonstrates the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Karl Marx

    The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market)

    by Allan Megill ...
    Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? In Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason, Allan Megill begins with this question. Megill's examination of Marx's formative writings casts new light on Marx's relation to philosophy and reveals a hitherto largely unknown "rationalist" Marx. In demonstrating how Marx's rationalism permeated his attempts to ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD