Continuity and discontinuity in the East Central European transitions, 3, Assessing the legacy of communism
In: EUI working papers
In: SPS 99,4
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In: EUI working papers
In: SPS 99,4
In: Theory, culture & society: explorations in critical social science, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 45-69
ISSN: 1460-3616
This article argues that the life-works of Norbert Elias and Franz Borkenau can best be understood together, as they were developed in close interaction during the 1930s. Deriving inspiration from Freud, they took up the project formulated by Weber at the end of his `Anticritical Last Word'. However, in two significant respects they went beyond the Weberian problematics. First, overcoming the centrality attributed to economic concerns, they rooted the Western civilizing process in the long-term attempt to harness the violence that was escalated by the emergence and then collapse of the Roman Empire. Second, they emphasized the crucial importance of periods of transition that follow an overall dissolution of order and mark the possible future course of events.
In: European journal of social theory, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 209-227
ISSN: 1461-7137
This paper attempts to reassess the standard sociological canon and sketch the outlines of a new approach by bringing together a series of thinkers whose works so far have remained disconnected. Introducing a distinction between classics and background figures who were crucial sources of inspiration, it shifts emphasis to the late, reflexive works of Durkheim and Weber. These are sources for two types of reflexive sociology: historical and anthropological. The main background figures of reflexive historical sociology are Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Freud, while its protagonists include Foucault, Elias, Voegelin, Borkenau, Mumford, Ariès and Koselleck. A short introduction will be given to the four main fields of interest within the approach: the reconstructive histories of subjectivity, of forms of thought, of forms of knowledge, and of closed space and regulated time.
In: European journal of social theory, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 158-160
ISSN: 1461-7137
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 103, Heft 5, S. 1402-1410
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Cultures & conflits: sociologie politique de l'international, Heft 17
ISSN: 1777-5345
In: East European politics and societies: EEPS, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 268-305
ISSN: 1533-8371