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Founders, Classics, Canons

Author : Peter R. Baehr
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412823838
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics, Canons written by Peter R. Baehr and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three categories-founders, classics, canons-have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's precarious identity, defining the discipline's sense of its past and the implications for its current activity. Today that identity is being challenged as never before. Within the academy, a number of positions-feminist, postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial-converge in questioning the status of "the tradition." These currents, in turn, reflect wider social questioning about the meaning and uses of knowledge in technologically advanced societies. In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr scrutinizes the nature of this challenge. He provides a model of the processes through which texts are elevated to classic status, and defends the continuing importance of sociology's traditions for a university education in the social sciences. The concept of "classic" is, as Baehr notes, a complex one. Essentially it assumes a scale of judgment that deems certain texts as exemplary in eminence. But what is the nature of this eminence? Baehr analyzes various responses to this question. Most notable are those that focus on the functions classics perform for the scholarly community that employs them; the rhetorical force classics are said to possess; and the processes of reception that result in classic status. The concept of classic is often equated with two other notions: "founders" and "canon." The former has a well-established pedigree within the discipline, but widespread usage of the latter in sociology is much more recent and polemical in tone. Baehr offers arguments against these two ways of interpreting, defending and attacking sociology's great texts and authors. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken. While questioning the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr's purpose is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning they have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or excoriate the liberal university tradition. In examining the tactics of this battle, this volume offers a model of how social theory can be critical rather than radical. Peter Baehr teaches in the department of politics and sociology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His previous book for Transaction, Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World, was designated an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice.

Founders, Classics, Canons

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203791615
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics, Canons written by Peter Baehr and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions?feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial?question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition."--Provided by publisher.

Founders, Classics, Canons

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519301
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics, Canons written by Peter Baehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.

Founders, Classics and the Concept of a Canon

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780803978867
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics and the Concept of a Canon written by Peter Baehr and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Founders, Classics and the Concept of a Canon

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics and the Concept of a Canon written by Peter Baehr and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Founders, Classics, Canons

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519336
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Founders, Classics, Canons written by Peter Baehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions?feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial?question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.

The Founders and the Classics

Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)

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The American Founders and the Classics

Author : Justin Deplato
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781634874953
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The American Founders and the Classics written by Justin Deplato and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why Concepts Matter

Author : Martin Burke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194266
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Why Concepts Matter written by Martin Burke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores distinctive issues involved in translating political and social thought. Thirteen contributors consider problems arising from the study of translation and cultural transfers of texts, in particular in terms of translation studies, and the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte).

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory: Volume 1, A Contested Canon

Author : Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108916376
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory: Volume 1, A Contested Canon written by Peter Kivisto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social theory and its relationship to the canon, exploring such topics as the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory; the significance of the classics; the impact of specific individual and theory schools; and more. Both volumes reflect a mixture of what intellectual historian Morton White distinguished as the 'annalist of ideas' and the 'analyst of ideas,' locating theoretical thought within the larger socio-historical context that shaped it - within the terrain of the sociology of knowledge. Exploring the contemporary relevance of theories in a manner that is historically situated and sensitive, this impressive and comprehensive set will likely stand the test of time.

Model Cases

Author : Monika Krause
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678083X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Model Cases written by Monika Krause and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, we envision a different kind of research attuned to historical power relations or the unique experiences of a social group. In Model Cases, sociologist Monika Krause uncovers the ways the humanities and social sciences are shaped by and dependent on a set of canonical research objects of their own, often in unacknowledged ways. Krause shows that some research objects are studied repeatedly and shape the understanding of more general categories in disproportionate ways. For instance, Chicago comes to be the touchstone for studies of the modern city, or Michel Foucault's analysis of Bentham's prison a guiding light for understanding contemporary power relations. Moving through classic cases in the social sciences, Krause reveals the ways canonical examples and sites have shaped research and theory, showing how they can both help and harm the production of knowledge. In the end, she argues, model cases have great potential to serve scholarship--as long as they are acknowledged and examined with acuity.

The Western Canon

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547546483
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Western Canon written by Harold Bloom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review). Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

The Golden Age of the Classics in America

Author : Carl J Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054490
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the Classics in America written by Carl J Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. The Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system in a way that steadily eroded the preeminence of the classics.

Founders and Builders of Our Nation (Classic Reprint)

Author : Helen Mehard Davidson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330729816
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Founders and Builders of Our Nation (Classic Reprint) written by Helen Mehard Davidson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Founders and Builders of Our Nation "History is a continued story, each chapter of which tells the story of some mans work for his country." The twenty-six stories of great Americans which make up Founders And Builders Of Our Nation are thus the continued story of our country, and are intended to serve as an introduction to American History. The Report of the Committee of Eight says: "In Grades IV and V the biographical element should receive emphasis. Leaders, heroes, and patriots should be identified with great movements and important situations. But in every case the share of the leader should be made the strong feature; for in that way historic truth makes its strongest appeal to the young." That the men and women whose stories are told here are the outstanding leaders is ensured by the method of their selection. The list of names was compiled by ascertaining the choice of a large number of educators, each naming the Americans he considered had done most for their country. While the arrangement is in the main chronological, these great Americans have been grouped according to the nature of their contribution to the nation. For example, Jefferson is not placed among the leaders of the Revolution, but with Clark and Jackson, in order to emphasize his part in enlarging the territory. The Introductions to these groups are planned to interpret the arrangement and to connect these divisions. The teacher should go over these with the class before assigning them as lessons. The Topics for Review and Search given after each story are planned to make the pupils think over what they have already learned, and usually to do some simple research work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The American Founders and the Classics

Author : Justin Deplato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516554898
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The American Founders and the Classics written by Justin Deplato and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Founders and the Classics analyzes theories of democracy from America's founders and connects them with the ideas of classical and Renaissance political philosophy. The text explores classical thinkers from Ancient Greece, political writing from the Enlightenment, and America's founders. Students will read Aristotle's Politics: Book I and Cicero's On the Laws. They will consider how Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and Rousseau's The Social Contract may have impacted the work of American founders such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and John Adams. The text allows students to connect writers such as Plato, Locke, and Hobbes with founders such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton. The anthology includes the entirety of all original documents paired with commentary, analysis, and imagery to enhance both interest and comprehension. Featuring original illustrations, The American Founders and the Classics is an accessible and enjoyable text that gives students a comprehensive, analytical overview of America's great political thinkers and serves as a reminder that America was founded with pragmatism, compromise, and aspiration. The book is well suited to courses on American government, political thought, and the Constitution, as well as introductory political philosophy classes.

Archives européennes de sociologie

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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This is the Canon

Author : Joan Anim-Addo
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529414601
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book This is the Canon written by Joan Anim-Addo and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature' Nikesh Shukla 'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the pioneers in this exciting area of books' Symeon Brown These are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. It disrupts the all-too-often white-dominated 'required reading' collections that have become the accepted norm and highlights powerful voices and cultural perspectives that demand a place on our shelves. From literary giants such as Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe to less well known (but equally vital) writers such as Caribbean novelist Earl Lovelace or Indigenous Australian author Tony Birch, the novels recommended here are in turn haunting and lyrical; innovative and inspiring; edgy and poignant. The power of great fiction is that readers have the opportunity to discover new worlds and encounter other beliefs and opinions. This is the Canon offers a rich and multifaceted perspective on our past, present and future which deserves to be read by all bibliophiles - whether they are book club members or solitary readers, self-educators or teachers.