Founders, classics, canons : modern disputes over the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage /: modern disputes over the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Baehr.
• Other Names: Baehr, Peter
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Founders of Discourse -- Founders: Discursive and Institutional; Deliberative and Appropriated Founders -- Foucault's Founders -- Wolin and "Epic Theory" -- Constitutions, Discourses, Founders -- 3. Founders of Institutions -- The Social Context of Innovation -- Creativity, Reputation and Intellectual Networks -- The Shadow Group Revisited -- Institutional and Deliberative Founding: Durkheim and the Annee sociologique -- The Founder Idea: A Conjectural Genealogy -- 4. The Utility, Rhetoric and Interpretation of Classic Texts -- A Definition of Classic Texts -- Classics in Common? The Uses of Classical Theory and The Discipline of Sociology -- Rhetoric in the Classical Tradition -- Understanding Classic Texts -- Presentism -- The Historicist Critique and Alternative -- Objections to Historicism -- 5. Classicality: Criteria and Reception -- The Stratification of Classic Texts -- "Criteria" of Classicality? -- Classics and Their "Reception" -- Classic Reception, Classic Formation -- The Classics, Gender and Sexuality -- Excursus on Classic Appraisal in Sociology and The Arts -- 6. Canons -- "Canon" in Current Social Theory: Usages and Appraisals -- Conflicting Terminologies -- The Christian Canon and the Classics of Sociology -- Significance of the Canon Debate: The Controversy Over Higher Education and the Purpose of the University -- The University and the Jargon of "Relevance" -- 7. A Concluding Look at the Three Concepts.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Subjects: 301/.09; Sociology -- History; Sociology -- Philosophy -- History; Sociologie -- Histoire; Sociologie -- Philosophie -- Histoire; Sociology; Sociology -- Philosophy; Sociologie; Canon; Traditie; Sociologie; Canon; Traditie; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351519342; 1351519344
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