German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West

Voices from Weimar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

There has been considerable interest in recent years in German social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger. In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of a circle of left-liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler, Tönnies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan-European reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage between East and West. Harrington examines their concepts of nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European identity and the place of the modern West in global social change. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in social, cultural and historical theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:770 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:450
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107110915

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Austin Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. His other publications include Modern Social Theory: An Introduction (2005), Art and Social Theory (2004) and Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas (2001).

Recensioner i media

'This is a significant book that questions the received view about classical social theory. With considerable erudition and a careful reading of a wide range of the most important thinkers in early twentieth-century Germany, Harrington shows that these theorists had already anticipated some of the ideas that are more commonly associated with contemporary thought. He also demonstrates that the traditional view of the decline of cosmopolitanism needs to be revisited.' Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Social theory and the West; 2. Europa in Weimar; 3. Liberal social theorists in Germany, 1914–33; 4. European nationhood after the Great War; 5. A Romano-Germanic nexus; 6. Universal history; 7. Humanism and Europe; 8. European nihilism?; 9. Protesting the West: yesterday and today.