Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241279918
Steph Coulter, Michael Kenny
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Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241278643
Bridget Ritz
Pragmatist-informed work in sociological theory ritualistically references John Dewey (1859–1952), among others, as a foundational pragmatist theorist. Yet sociological theorists have barely scratched the surface of what philosophers who specialize in Dewey’s work such as Thomas Alexander and Richard Shusterman see as central to his thought, namely, his aesthetics. While in recent years some have drawn attention to Dewey’s aesthetics, this area of his work remains little known within sociology. Even less known is the extent to which Dewey’s aesthetics bears significant resemblances to the thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914). I offer an exegesis of Dewey’s aesthetics, underscoring the roles of quality, emotion, and continuity in it and in Peircean thought alike. Understanding Dewey’s aesthetics in a Peircean key, I argue, calls for shifting theoretical attention from how people “problem solve” to get what they want or engage in “creative action” to transcend their situational constraints, to when, why, and how people, including sociologists ourselves, might engage problematic situations as mediums for transformation, as aesthetic experiences in potential. Further, it brings into focus the importance of potentiality for sociological research.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241278514
Austin Harrington
Building and expanding on significant pre-existing scholarship, this article surveys Georg Simmel’s public reactions to the war, concentrating on his most widely circulated statements of the period, before moving on to some further considerations on the significance of the war for Simmel’s sociological and philosophical vision as a whole. At the forefront are three or four main emphases of Simmel’s thinking in the relevant texts. These include the politics of Europe and the nation in Simmel’s thought; themes of death and finitude in modern culture; the West and Western hubris on the stage of world history; and money, law and violence in international affairs at the outset of the 20th century. Though there can be little doubt of the sheer virulence of Simmel’s and other German writers’ reaction to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, the war’s profoundly transformative experience could move Simmel gradually to embrace another, more reasoned and self-reflective form of salient struggle with ‘the West’ and Western ‘civilization’ in European relations, disabused of nationalistic anguish and resentment.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241278604
Daniel R. Huebner
Recent scholarship has begun to transform the traditional view of Mead as a micro-sociological theorist unable to effectively conceptualize conflict, especially by returning to his writings articulated during and after World War I. Building on this emerging literature with the help of primary source documents, the article traces Mead’s personal experiences during the war, including his contentious break with other pacifists, the pressures he felt to contribute war service at home, the serious battlefield injury of his son, his official duties inspecting officer training curricula, and his founding role in postwar political forums. This enables us to contextualize the ideas Mead developed on political institutions, the individual’s social conscience, hostile impulses, nationalistic solidarity, institution building, and value-commitments in relation to the events that prompted his reflection. The early evaluations of Mead’s ideas on war and politics by his colleagues help us understand how his late work on the development of “international-mindedness” revealed prescient social conditions and dynamics of inter-group conflict.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241269102
Bryan S. Turner
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Pub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241264416
Raymond Geuss
This essay falls into two parts. In the first the author tries to sketch some reasons for adopting an essayistic, rather than a monographic, approach to social phenomena. If one believes that society strongly privileges a certain relatively uniform set of terms, concepts, and theories, tacitly claiming universal status for them, then a sharply focused study of individual, seemingly marginal, phenomena will escape this imposed homogeneity than more general theoretic accounts will. The second part begins by distinguishing three senses of ‘universalism’. In the first sense, and approach is universal if it claims to be applicable to everything. An example would be the ‘economic’ approach to human behaviour. In a second sense, one can claim that a theory has universal application and is also uniquely correct –it is not simply one way to approach everything, but it is the only right way. The third sense is one associated with Kantian transcendentalism, which is a claim not just about the correctness of a given view, but its necessity, a necessity that is rooted in some invariant feature which structures all our knowledge. This essay claims that a confusion of the first and third of the three senses of ‘universalism’ has had very deleterious consequences for human thought and action.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241264409
Gerard Delanty
This essay is a review of Raymond Geuss’s book, Seeing Double. The review discusses the seven essays that comprise the book, which is concerned with the implications of the fact that the world never makes complete sense to us and that there are only fragments of meaning without any higher order or authority to make sense of the world. The book explores the consequences of abandoning the idea of a unity view of the world. The review essay discusses some of the issues around an alternative perspective that prioritizes plurality.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-10DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241251823
Gerard Delanty
This essay is a short reply to Richard Swedberg’s review of my book, Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024). The main points are addressed. In addition I sum up the rationale and aims of the book.
本文是对理查德-斯维德伯格（Richard Swedberg）对我的著作《未来感》（Senses of the Future：一书的评论（柏林：De Gruyter 出版社，2024 年）。主要论述了几点。此外，我还总结了本书的基本原理和目的。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241249006
Frédéric Vandenberghe
Alain Caillé, the founder of the Mouvement du MAUSS, presents an influential interpretation of Marcel Mauss’s classic Essay on the Gift as a foundational text of and for an anti-utilitarian theory of action. This article returns to Mauss’s seminal essay and presents the paradigm of the gift by resituating the MAUSSian reading within the French field of Maussology. While the article is largely sympathetic to the anti-utilitarian project, it also develops critiques and theoretical suggestions of its own.
马塞尔-莫斯（Marcel Mauss）的经典著作《礼物论》（Essay on the Gift）是反功利主义行动理论的奠基之作，马塞尔-莫斯运动的创始人阿兰-卡耶（Alain Caillé）对这本书进行了颇具影响力的解读。这篇文章回到了毛斯的这篇开创性文章，将毛斯的解读重新置于法国的毛斯学领域中，从而提出了礼物的范式。虽然文章在很大程度上同情反功利计划，但也提出了自己的批评和理论建议。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1177/1468795x241247825
Richard Swedberg
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