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Through the Past to the Future: From Georg Simmel and Max Weber to the Twenty-First Century’s Public Intellectuals book cover

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Through the Past to the Future From Georg Simmel and Max Weber to the Twenty-First Century’s Public Intellectuals

By Christian Karner Copyright 2027
224 Pages
by Routledge

Based upon a close reading of the foundational works of Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and the Frankfurt School as well as underexplored other works, Karner critically maps the conceptual approaches and theoretical insights of the German-language sociological tradition onto various 21st-century social and political issues. Karner demonstrates that a revisiting of classical German-language sociology,... Read more

Introduction. Concepts, Crises and Critique in an (Underexplored) Lineage of German-Language Sociology                                                                                                                                                        

 

1. Interactions, Interweavings, Communication: On the Nature of the Social                                   

 

2. Appropriation, Monopolization, and the Power of Boundaries: From Social Closure to Genocidal Destruction                                                                                                                         

 

3. States, Publics, Communication, and the Intellectual                                                                  

 

4. The Constitution of Meaning and Social Action: Between Ideology, Alienation and Resonance                                                                                                                                                             

5. Theories of a Later Modernity: Structure, Culture, Existentialism                                       

 

6. Multiple Exclusions and “Subjugated Knowledges”: Sociologists as Public

Intellectuals                                                                                                                                                       

 

Conclusion. German-Language Sociologies in the Longue Durée and in Global Contexts        

 

 

Biography

Christian Karner has previously been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, and then Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Most recently, he has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Athens. Christian Karner's areas of research and publication focus on political sociology (i.e. nationalism, ethnicity, globalization), urban sociology, and memory studies. He currently teaches sociological theory at the University of Innsbruck. 

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