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Professor of Apocalypse
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, ...
The Other God that Failed
Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its significance has been overlooked. The author explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the postwar decades.
Fluxus Administration
"George Maciunas is typically associated with the famous art collective Fluxus, of which he is often thought to have been the leader. In this book, critic and art historian Colby Chamberlain wants us to question two things: first, the idea that Fluxus was a "group" in any conventional sense, and second, that Maciunas was its "leader." Instead, Chamberlain shows us how Maciunas used the paper materials of bureaucracy in his art-cards, certificates, charts, files, and plans, among others-to subvert his own status as a "figurehead" of this collective and even as a biographical entity. Each of the book's chapters situates Maciunas's artistic practice in relation to a different domain: education,...
Beyond the Market
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive...
Sociology of Law
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Fahrzeuge auf Zelluloid
Diese kultursoziologische Studie rekonstruiert den Wandel von Fernsehwerbespots, die für Modelle der gehobenen Mittelklasse der Kölner Ford-Werke in den Jahren 1959 bis 1967 produziert worden sind. Das theoretische Vokabular hierfür bezieht Stefan Bauernschmidt aus der »Theorie soziokultureller Dynamik« (Geertz). Mit den Mitteln qualitativer Inhalts- und Bildanalyse zeichnet er die Korrespondenz zwischen den Bedeutungsgehalten der Fernsehspots und dem Weltbild der Zielgruppe nach und gelangt so zu einer detaillierten Beschreibung der Bedeutungskarrieren dieser Werbefilme. Eine materialreiche Fallstudie zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Fernsehwerbung.
Bibliographie zur deutschen Soziologie
Diese Bibliographie - entstanden aus der Datenbank SOLIS (Sozialwissenschaftliches Literaturinformationssystem) - enthält die soziologische Fachliteratur der Erscheinungsjahre 1978 bis 1982. In ihr werden über 14.000 selbständige und unselbständige Veröffentlichungen aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum nachgewiesen. Die Bibliographie ist inhaltlich in drei Abschnitte (Grundlagen und Methoden, Spezielle Soziologie, Sozialpsychologie) und insgesamt 29 Kapitel untergliedert. Sie schließt an eine frühere Publikation gleichen Namens ("Bibliographie zur Deutschen Soziologie 1945 - 1977") an und bildet den ersten Band einer Folge gleichartiger Bibliographien, die in kurzen Abständen erscheinen und den Anschluß an das Hier und Heute herstellen werden. Die Bibliographie wird (neben der Kapitelgliederung) durch ein umfassendes Personenregister, ein Institutionenregister sowie durch ein zweistufiges Sachregister erschlossen, das sich auf den vom Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften entwickelten Thesaurus der sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachterminologie stützt und alle in ihm enthaltenen Sachgebiete berücksichtigt.
