Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 308 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
The Sociology of Ernest Manheim
Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 308 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-3-935025-57-7
Verlag: SYNCHRON - Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren
Like other exiles of his generation - Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Erik Erikson, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm - Ernest Manheim contributed subtly, yet significantly, to the deprovincialization of culture in his adopted home. Born in Budapest, he began his graduate studies in Vienna, Kiel, and Leipzig before the Hitler regime forced him to flee. He settled first in London and later in Chicago and Kansas City. His writing and teaching assisted a generation of younger scholars in the postwar humanities and social sciences to become keenly conscious of the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of American political, moral, and academic culture. The essays in this collection, both by and about Ernest Manheim, attest to the depth and detail of his social theory on subjects of continuing and growing relevance: the sociology of communication and public opinion, the sociology of authority, the sociology of anomie and alienation, and the sociology of social science and education. In quiet contrast to the logical positivism that had attained a near-monopoly in U.S. graduate schools of philosophy and sociology, Manheim, along with a few others, offered a critical distillate of European approaches, which brought the insights of phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, and critical theory from the margins to the heart of intellectual life in this country. Manheim's work communicated the vibrancy of both its classical and contemporary German intellectual sources, and, in a humanistic and enlightened manner, stressed the essential connection of education to the attainment of the social potential of the human race. Manheim developed a transformative social logic of the public sphere thirty years before Jürgen Habermas did. In the early 1950s, while other academics feared jeopardizing their careers for the relatively unpopular cause of racial equality, Manheim demonstrated rare courage and high integrity in agreeing to testify as an expert witness in the major civil rights lawsuit of the century, Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. Likewise, his multicultural cosmopolitanism, his opposition to any kind of monoculturalism, and his critique of the patriarchal family remain at the cutting edge of social and cultural theory today.
INHALT
ESSAYS ABOUT ERNEST MANHEIM:
DAVID NORMAN SMITH, CHARLES REITZ, AND FRANK BARON
Preface: The Alchemy of Exile. Ernest Manheim's Venture beyond Borders and Boundaries
DAVID NORMAN SMITH
Facing Change and Danger: The Sociology of Ernest Manheim
CHARLES REITZ
The Call to Concrete Thinking: Ernest Manheim's Zur Logik des konkreten Begriffs
STEFANIE AVERBECK
Ernst Manheims Träger der öffentlichen Meinung: Eine Theorie der Öffentlichkeit 30 Jahre vor Jürgen Habermas
JEAN VAN DELINDER
Ernest Manheim, Social Science, and the Brown Case
ELISABETH WELZIG
Ein Mitteleuropäer in der Mitte Amerikas
TIBOR FRANK Der Kult des Allwissens im Budapest des Fin de Siècle
ELFRIEDE ÜNER
Entwicklungslinien der Kulturtheorie der Leipziger Schule
FRANK T. MANHEIM
Ernest Manheim: Sociologist and Composer
DAVID NORMAN SMITH
Writings by Ernest Manheim, 1928-2002
ESSAYS BY ERNEST MANHEIM:
Beiträge zu einer Geschichte der autoritären Familie.
The Role of Small Groups in the Formation of Public Opinion.
Minority Status as Related to Old and New Types of Nationalism.
Authority and Situations of "Total Risk."
The Sociological Theories of Hans Freyer: Sociology as a Nationalistic Program of Social Action.
Perspektiven moderner Musik.
Recent Types of Charismatic Leadership.
Musiksoziologie.
The Communicator and the Audience: Liberals and Traditionalists in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
Work and Leisure.
The Social Preconditions of Sociology.
The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered.
Rock: The Role and Future of Electronic Beat" Music
