Founders, classics, canons : modern disputes over the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage

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Founders, classics, canons : modern disputes over the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage

Peter Baehr ; with a foreword by Steven Lukes and critical contributions by Adomas Pūras, Philip Walsh, and William Outhwaite

Transaction, 2016

2nd ed

  • : paperback

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions-feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial-question the status of "tradition." In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken. Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.

目次

  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Founders of Discourse
  • 3: Founders of Institutions
  • 4: The Utility, Rhetoric, and Interpretation of Classic Texts
  • 5: Classicality: Criteria and Reception
  • 6: Canons
  • 7: A Concluding Look at the Three Concepts

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB22284729
  • ISBN
    • 9781412857055
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New Brunswick
  • ページ数/冊数
    xx, 290 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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