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Journal of Classical Sociology
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  • Book Review: Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo (eds) Handbook of Classical
           Sociological Theory

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      Authors: Frank J Lechner
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-16T01:13:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231176746
       
  • Abolishing division of labour or making it better'

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      Authors: Emmanuel Renault
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In some of his latest publications, Honneth claims that what is problematic with the contemporary forms of division of labour is that they are not in tune with what the division of labour should be. He endorse a Hegelian-Durkheimian conception of a division of labour as a source of social recognition and solidarity and therefore rejects Marx’s assumption that the division of labour is problematic as such, and therefore should be abolished. In a first step, this article reconstructs Honneth’s central argument. In a second step, it distinguishes different meanings of the very notion of the division of labour. In a third step, it raises two sets of questions: Would it be possible, and legitimate, to try to improve all dimensions of the division of labour, or would a normative conception of the division of labour imply that some of them should be abolished' Should we not use two distinct concepts of division of labour rather that only one'
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-02T08:34:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170365
       
  • Taking Care Seriously: Gendering Honneth’s The Working Sovereign – A
           Normative Theory of work

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      Authors: Christine Wimbauer
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Axel Honneth’s latest work The Working Sovereign. A Normative Theory of Work states that the democratization of work and employees’ experience of democracy at work are important prerequisites for creating and promoting democracy as well as social and political participation. According to Honneth, various aspects of ‘good work’ are essential for such a democratization of work. Undoubtedly working conditions must be improved and it is an inestimable merit of Axel Honneth’s book to demand this so clearly. Beyond this fundamental agreement, I would, however, take a broader view of some details and draw some conclusions differently. First, it is difficult to derive the improvements needed in the world of work from a theory of democracy alone as its limited scope hides other urgent problems. Second, any approach might prove short-sighted if the democratization of work thesis only refers to wage labour or, at best, to paid care work. Rather, a comprehensive concept of care/work must be the starting point. On a surface level, Honneth’s conception of work is broad and gender-sensitive. However, Honneth does not follow this to its logical conclusion and fails to provide a systematic role to his conception of work when deriving his claims in the final chapters of his book. Rather, this broad conception of work is lost more or less inconspicuously behind a latent androcentrism. This has far-reaching consequences: from a comprehensive, gender-theoretical perspective, it would have been necessary to demand the ‘democratization of care/work’ such that gender and specifically women, who are the main care providers and perform this work largely unpaid and invisibly, finally are also included. What is more, in Honneth’s analysis the same elision applies to other intersectional categories, as race, migration, citizenship and ability are all lost from view in Honneth’s nation-state-based, homogeneous and harmonious concept of democratization. In sum, in my critical engagement with Honneth’s new text I will show that while he very clearly points out the indispensable need for better working conditions, he is blind to gender and care work.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-27T06:12:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170827
       
  • What we may expect from work

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      Authors: Christian Schmidt
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In his critique of contemporary working conditions, Axel Honneth rejects Marx’s concept of alienation for three main reasons: (1) The concept is allegedly tied to industrial labor as the standard model of work. (2) The ideal of unalienated labor seems to be too demanding in its aspiration to the full development of all human potential. (3) The level of analysis is so fundamental that the critique loses the “ends in view,” that is, the feasible almerioation of actual working conditions. I argue that these three challenges can be met by a more charitable reading of Marx. Moreover, alienation helps us to identify structural reasons for the failure of approaches to improve working conditions in recent decades and provides analytical tools for the current crises of democracy.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-27T06:07:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170762
       
  • The contribution of meaningfulness to the work of democratic will
           formation

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      Authors: Ruth Yeoman
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      A response to Axel Honneth’s 2021 Walter-Benjamin Lectures on ‘The Working Sovereign’
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T06:05:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170712
       
  • Introduction: Celebrating the life and work of André Gorz

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      Authors: Edward Granter, Graeme Gilloch, Jeremy Aroles, Ross Abbinnett
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz’s place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors’ papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who helped make it happen.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-22T06:49:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170763
       
  • Crisis and Utopia: André Gorz and the end of work

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      Authors: Edward Granter, Jeremy Aroles
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In this paper, we are concerned with the role of André Gorz in the development of the concept of the end of work. We draw from Gorz’s stance on automation, utopia, capitalism and labour to reflect on the directions of the end of work debate, leaning towards Gorz’s invitation to repoliticize the end of work. While Gorz’s writings predate the rise of the gig economy, he presaged many of the developments we are currently witnessing. Even if the end of work is not in sight, we argue that it remains nonetheless a useful concept to help us cultivate possibilities and a sense of difference. Finally, it is our intention to highlight that while Gorz’s work received less attention than other scholars broadly associated with critical examinations of capitalism, his scholarship holds the potential to reinvigorate, or rejuvenate, debates pertaining to the end of work as well as the future of work.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-22T06:48:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170368
       
  • The contributions of the analysis of alienation to the social critique of
           labour in neoliberal capitalism

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      Authors: Nial Tekin
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      From a sociological perspective, this paper attempts to contribute to the discussion on work and democracy led by Axel Honneth. Through Honneth’s analyses, this text focuses particularly on the concept of alienation. The central argument is that the analysis of alienation can provide critical insights into the limitations of democratic practices within contemporary organizations of work. The paper draws on empirical and theoretical debates in sociology to demonstrate the concept of alienation as a lens for analysing the complex relationships between labour and democracy.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-20T05:24:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231170398
       
  • Breaking news: Upheavals in the formation of public opinion

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      Authors: Peter Wagner
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-31T08:04:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231165649
       
  • Embryonic intersectionality: W.E.B. Du Bois and the inauguration of
           intersectional sociology

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      Authors: Reiland Rabaka
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      As a brief exercise in the critical sociology of sociology, this article demonstrates W.E.B. Du Bois’s undeniable contributions to the history, discourse, and development of American sociology in particular, and the wider world of sociology in general. This dialectical approach to Du Bois’s sociological discourse will enable objective interpreters of his work to see that when compared and contrasted with the monumental work of Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, what was and what remains really and truly distinctive about Du Bois’s sociology is precisely his unpretentious preoccupation with uniquely and unequivocally American social, political, and cultural issues, such as, for example: race and anti-Black racism in the context of slavery, lynching, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression in the United States; racial capitalism and the racial colonization of social classes in the United States; and the racial colonization of gender and sexuality in the United States.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-24T06:01:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231160169
       
  • Marxist sociology in East Berlin (1949–1989): A field-spatial
           analysis

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      Authors: Barbara Grüning
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The main objective of the paper is to identify the logic of the sociological field in the GDR, looking at how it was spatialized in the city of East Berlin. In this regard, I am less interested in providing an overview of the different research streams of the main sociologists operating in the scientific and academic institutes located in Berlin than in reconstructing some crucial dynamics at work there and highlighting their effects at the social and symbolic levels. The underlying idea is that, especially in East Berlin, the sociological knowledge produced was less homogeneous than it has been represented in the existing literature. Without negating the existence of shared aspects characterizing Marxist-Leninist sociology, also superimposed on the political elite, a field analysis enables us to see how the different positions and trajectories of GDR-sociologists had an impact on their approaches to theoretical, epistemological, and methodological questions, and on their understanding and uses of concepts deriving from both Marxist-Leninist and “bourgeois” sociology. In the analysis, I will first compare the social trajectories of two of my interview-partners as paradigmatic of two different sociological habitus depending on their different academic/political socialization, networks, and positions in the field. As a second step, I will present a sketch of the sociological field drawn from 63 curricula of sociologists active in East Berlin in an attempt to pinpoint, on a larger scale, the homologies between the social and symbolic spaces of the field. Thus, the underlying idea is to examine the intersection of the “quasi-structural properties” of the field with its “phenomenological aspects” concerning the “feel for the game.” While the two understandings of field are interdependent, it is in the second one that the physical space as a localized social space played a crucial role in defining the material, social, and cultural constraints and opportunities actors faced which, in turn, influenced their practices and choices.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-16T11:39:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231159618
       
  • A disenchanted world: Max Weber on magic and modernity

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      Authors: Mario Marotta
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Despite its great popularity in both the scientific and non-scientific fields, Max Weber’s concept of “disenchantment” remains mostly obscure and in recent years it has become the center of an interdisciplinary debate on modernity involving both Weberian specialists and non-specialists. The aim of the article is to return to Weber’s text and analyze Weber’s use of the term and the meaning of what he calls the “disenchantment of the world.” To do so I follow Taylor’s and Schluchter’s insight and investigate how Weber would picture an initial condition of enchantment. However, while these interpreters did not explore the Weberian perspective on magic, I instead show that not only Weber had a precise and original conception of magic as the primitive attitude toward the world, but also that this conception may clarify the meaning and dynamics of the process of disenchantment in both the spheres of religion and of science.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-16T05:09:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231160716
       
  • Women of courage and the seedbed of autonomy in modernity: On the
           transnational influence of cultures on social structure in the work of
           Rose Laub Coser

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      Authors: Barbara Hoenig
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This paper examines the contribution of Rose Laub Coser to sociological theory in the structural tradition. Laub Coser was one of the most successful women sociologists of her generation. She was born in Berlin in 1916 but left with her family in 1924 for Antwerp in Belgium, and went into exile in 1939 in New York. Thus, Laub Coser was familiar with many cultural worlds and languages. Although she primarily lived in the United States, the transnational influence of the metropolis of Berlin is manifest in her sociological work in several ways. Conceptually, this is relevant for Laub Coser’s reception of Georg Simmel’s Soziologie. In particular, her theory of the complexity of social roles as a seedbed of individual autonomy is founded on Simmel’s theory of the importance of conflict and ambivalence for individualization. Her multiple experiences of emigration and exile influenced Laub Coser’s work, including Women of Courage, an analysis of the social lives of Eastern European and Italian migrants in the metropolis of New York, and her internationally comparative studies on the family and women’s rise in the labor market. Laub Coser investigated the social consequences of having multiple group affiliations and the conditions for such individuals in the cultural and social structure of modernity. In her transnationally comparative work of migrant cultures, she demonstrated the scope of her theory of role complexity. Contrary to images of migration bare of gender and culture, Laub Coser interprets the individuals she studied in Women of Courage as active agents of migration and provides insights on the influence that cultural definitions of situations have had toward creating the social structure of modern society. Starting from Robert K. Merton’s role-set theory and integrating Simmel’s analysis of forms of social differentiation, Laub Coser analyzed the conditions and consequences of multiple group affiliations, their observability, and the ambivalences in “cross-cutting social circles” (Simmel), which create conditions for developing individuality and individualism. The cultural mandate for women to be socialized toward the “greedy institution” of the family offers only restricted role-sets and opportunities for articulating social roles, constraining their social competencies as autonomous individuals. Despite the alienating and anomic consequences of role complexity, Laub Coser valued its liberating potential. Possibly this theoretical orientation was also influenced by her own experience as an immigrant, sociologist, and political activist in the socialist women’s movement. The posthumously published study Women of Courage is based on a research project that began in the 1980s, comprising hundreds of qualitative interviews with women who had migrated to New York in the early 1920s, and who were at least 13 years old when they immigrated. The histories of these women demonstrate their role in enabling the social mobility of their families in the receiving society. They provided insights into how cultures change and how women migrants understood their lives in the New World.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-15T04:52:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231159590
       
  • The ‘Heron’: Nine steps for a past life

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      Authors: Graeme Gilloch
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In Farewell to the Working Class,1 (1982), a book dedicated to his wife Dorine, André Gorz (1923–2007) offers the reader ‘Nine Theses for a Future Left’. Here, I borrow and play with this nomenclature for a series of reflections on the two volumes which constitute Gorz’s most personal writings and which book-end, so to speak, his oeuvre: The Traitor and Letter to D. A Love Story. More precisely, this is a viewing of the former text through the lens of the latter. The ‘steps’ presented here are not those of a linear path and progression but rather, like steps in a dance, move backwards and forwards, turn and circle, trace and retrace ephemeral patterns. In following in such steps, I contrast Gorz’s account of the self with another set of explicitly non-autobiographical autobiographical writings, those of the German Critical Theorist Walter Benjamin (1892–1940). Central to both writers is an understanding of particular traumatic experiences and past catastrophes, and an abiding concern with overcoming contemporary alienation through play and dance, love and eros.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-01T06:08:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231158113
       
  • Gorz and Stiegler: Politics, ecology and the Neganthropocene

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      Authors: Ross Abbinnett
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The article explores the relationship between André Gorz’s account of the possibility of a deproletarianised regime of labour and Bernard Stiegler’s theory of the Neganthropocene. Gorz’s formulation of the impact of computer and robotic systems on the turnover of capital was, I will argue, a turning point in the way critical theory conceived the social implications of technology. His account of the supervenience of work and culture over the sphere of production forms the basis of the fundamental questions about life, creativity, and freedom that have emerged in the digital age. The paper will show that it is this notion of a fragile and disputed supervenience that is re-formulated and extended in Stiegler’s account of the Neganthropocene, particularly in his account of the fate of reflexive culture under the regime of global-digital capitalisation.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-14T12:09:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231154238
       
  • “For free and useless studies”: Critical reflections on the
           end of work and study

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      Authors: Nichole Marie Shippen
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Revisiting Gorz’s Destroy the University (1970) offers an opportunity to analyze the community college as situated between the factory (vocational) and the prison (formal education’s “other”) in the United States. College administrators increasingly require economic rationality to justify the continued existence of liberal arts, humanities, and social science programs at community colleges or risk being eliminated as “useless.” Most community college students are first generation, full-time students, workers, and often parenting students. They face severe time constraints, which are under-theorized and under-politicized to their own detriment. The COVID-19 pandemic compelled most people, including students, to transform previously private spaces to public spaces to accommodate work, school, and care-giving responsibilities. As a result, spatial and temporal distinctions between these different modes of being collapsed, allowing economic rationality to inform the most intimate settings of home; a Gorzian nightmare. In this article, I bring Gorz’s “Destroy the University” into conversation with his Critique of Economic Reason to examine how economic rationality functions within the community college with special attention to the acceleration of study in relation to Complete College America’s “15 to Finish” program at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-14T12:07:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231153824
       
  • Book Review: The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick

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      Authors: Hans Joas
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-13T10:22:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231153831
       
  • Things that endure: Community gardens and the post-work imaginary

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      Authors: Abigail Schoneboom, Daniel Mallo, Armelle Tardiveau
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses pinhole photography to explore how time feels for ‘unemployed’ volunteers at a community garden in the north-east of England. It upholds that the garden’s ability to fill time meaningfully is grounded in the food-growing and composting cycle but is also anchored to the mature trees, structures and artworks – made, grown or maintained by the volunteers themselves, that persist in the space for many years. We argue that urban community gardens offer their denizens an ‘elongated present’ that is fulfilling to the individual while also sustaining community and nature. Emphasising the need for enduring, rather than temporary or pop-up, growing spaces in helping us transition to a sustainable, post-work society, the study thus adds temporal insight to existing scholarship on the importance of community gardens.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-10T10:50:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231154229
       
  • Toward a critical social theory of AI: Knowledge, information, and
           intelligence in the later works of André Gorz

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      Authors: Jaeho Kang
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In his last scholarly work, L’Immatériel, André Gorz grapples with the emergence of the new cognitive capitalism based on immaterial labor and capital and, crucially, he seeks to comprehend how advanced technologies—such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICTs, and specifically, AI—reshape the very nature of the human subject. Despite its vital contributions, his conventional form of humanism—one that draws clear lines between organic human culture and inorganic machinic systems—is questioned and challenged by the increasingly complex and pervasive interplay between the two domains. Focusing on his later writings, this essay critically examines Gorz’s social theory of cognitive capitalism with particular reference to knowledge, information and intelligence. In doing so, the essay draws out some theoretical implications of Gorz’s defense of the humanities against post-human civilization for the development of a critical social theory of AI.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-10T10:36:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231153825
       
  • “Confronting time out of joint. . . – On economic rationality and
           imagination”

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      Authors: Diana Stypinska
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      It is often suggested that today we are living in the “end times.” Confronted by a perpetual incursion of major global crises, we increasingly find ourselves incapable of meaningfully relating to the present, let alone to the future. The forever deferred “end” throws the very idea of time out of joint. Unable to advance, our imagination retreats, with retrograde tendencies taking over both culture and politics. From incessant movie prequels and sequels, through the re-emergence of populist fascist politics, all the way to the return of Cold War rhetoric, we witness our reality becoming increasingly substituted by a string of peculiar rehashings and reunions. History, as we knew it, is no longer “made”; we strain to cling to the past, equating the future with dystopia. Crucially, this problematique of the fading of temporality is not new. In fact, it has got a history of its own. This paper explores our current (a)temporal whereabouts by reflecting upon them from the perspective of their historical trajectory. It does this by revisiting the work of André Gorz—a thinker whose contributions equip us with the insights needed to confront time out of joint effectively and embrace the idea of future. The article argues that the roots of today’s temporal malaise can be found in the process of “economicization,” which subordinated the notion of utopia to its principles, thereby nullifying it. Examining the effects of the unbridled reign of economic rationality over our imagination, it calls for a temporal intervention by means of ecological rationality.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-01T11:46:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231153786
       
  • Marcel Mauss and the magical agents of our time

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      Authors: Irene Skovgaard-Smith, Alison Hirst
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article revisits Marcel Mauss’s theory of magic in the context of contemporary capitalism. Mauss saw magic as the art of transforming, socially accomplished via processes of differentiation that endow specialised agents, and their symbolic acts, with an ambiguous and unstable potentiality to do the extraordinary. Applying Mauss’s conception, we argue that significant figures of late capitalism, such as leaders, consultants and entrepreneurs, are set apart and socially constituted as magical agents with supernormal powers to solve unfathomable problems, ‘create value’ and make things happen. Based on collective beliefs and expectations, they are infused with a transformative social efficacy that further entrenches dominant neoliberal values and practices. The article contributes to highlighting the continued sociological relevance of Mauss’s theory of magic and his insistence on the importance of symbolic thought and action in the constitution of the social.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-01-21T09:13:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231151797
       
  • André Gorz and contemporary Frankfurt School Critical Theory: Alienation,
           eco-socialism and post-productivism

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      Authors: Neal Harris, Javier Zamora Garcia, Lucy Ford
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      We argue that Gorz’s work offers a nuanced engagement with alienation that is instructive for contemporary social theory. In keeping with Gorz’s broader politics, we contend that the utility of his framing of alienation derives from his insistence that progressive critique must challenge the ideal of productivism. We start the paper by presenting a sympathetic reconstruction of Gorz’s understanding of alienation. Next, we explicitly detail the strengths his approach carries for furthering sociological research today. We then reinforce this point by arguing that Gorz’s work offers particularly valuable theoretical resources for contemporary Frankfurt School Critical Theory, in which the study of alienation has been somehow hampered by the ascent of ‘recognition theory’. While not sharing all the methodological commitments of first-generation Critical Theorists, Gorz was well versed in Frankfurt School scholarship and is therefore an apposite interlocutor to engage ‘third-generation’ Critical Theory. Gorz’s insights are thus shown to be important for furthering contemporary social theory, and in particular, for helping to combat the unsustainable productivism of neoliberal capitalism.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-01-04T07:29:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221145833
       
  • Book Review: John Holloway, Hope in Hopeless Times

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      Authors: Chamsy el-Ojeili
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-22T01:38:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221144725
       
  • Book Review: Thomas Kemple, Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical
           Sociology

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      Authors: William Outhwaite
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-17T04:57:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221142464
       
  • Hans Kelsen and sociology

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      Authors: Christopher Adair-Toteff
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This review focuses on one major work of Hans Kelsen which was first published in 1922 and is now included in the most recent volume of Hans Kelsen Werke. While Kelsen’s reputation is as a legal philosopher, this 1922 work shows that he had an excellent understanding of sociology, especially regarding Georg Simmel and Max Weber.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-30T08:13:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221139971
       
  • Gabriel Tarde and cultural evolution: The consequence of neglecting our
           Mendel

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      Authors: Marion Blute
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      After documenting Tarde’s neglect and placing him in the 19th-century sociological context, this paper argues that his concept of “imitation” was important because social learning (writ small) or culture (writ large), a non-genetic form of heredity, means that a distinct cultural evolutionary process including variation and selection resulting in descent with modification is inevitable. Beginning in the last half of the 20th century there was a flowering of theorizing and research about cultural evolution across the humanities and social sciences and eventually about culture in general in sociology. Unfortunately, what should have been recognized as Tarde’s role as a forefather of these has only occasionally been recognized.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-30T08:10:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221136830
       
  • Book Review: Normative Intermittency: A Sociology of Failing Social
           Structuration

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      Authors: Stephen Turner
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-21T08:35:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221137688
       
  • Book review: Wolfgang Streeck, Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie.
           Politische Ökonomie im ausgehenden Neoliberalismus

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      Authors: Colin Crouch
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-03T09:43:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221127246
       
  • Race, nation and empire; the forgotten sociology of Herbert Adolphus
           Miller

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      Authors: Jan Balon, John Holmwood
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875–1951) is a neglected figure within North American sociology, yet he made a distinctive contribution to the sociology and politics of race relations. He was one of the first sociological critics of eugenics and developed a distinctive approach to race relations and the position of subject minorities derived from a critical analysis of European empires. His approach was complementary to that of Du Bois with whom he had a close relationship. In this article, we trace Miller’s critique of eugenics and the idea of ‘Americanisation’ as a policy of immigrant assimilation, showing the distinctiveness of his approach within North American sociology, including the milieu of Chicago sociology with which he was associated. We also examine the connection between his sociology of race and Park’s position on race relations as being a process of gradual assimilation. We conclude with discussion of the Chicago school influence over Gunnar Myrdal’s The American Dilemma and the alternative approach to race relations that both Du Bois and Miller had already outlined in the 1920s.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-03T09:42:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221126330
       
  • Habitus and personality in the work of Max Weber

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      Authors: Elisabeth Anderson
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Weber’s critique of modernity centred on how it shaped the habitus – life-conduct and motivations – of the modern individual. I explicate six habitus-types that appear in Weber’s work: the early-modern Puritan Berufsmensch, the modern specialist, the modern industrial worker, the politician, the civil servant and the citizen voter. In doing so, I identify the main characteristics of each type and the causal mechanisms through which Western modernity’s core features – capitalism and bureaucracy – brought them into being. Further, I discuss two habitus-related problems that concerned Weber: the general failure of the modern habitus to achieve ‘personality’; and the mismatch between habitus and occupational role in the Wilhelmine political sphere. I then explain the practical reforms through which Weber hoped to address these problems. Finally, I show how this analysis helps resolve two apparent contradictions which have long perplexed Weber scholars.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T04:55:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221099207
       
  • Benjamin’s Baudelaire: Translation and modern experience

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      Authors: Esperança Bielsa
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article focusses on Walter Benjamin’s approach to the experience of modernity through his long-term engagement with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. Benjamin translated Baudelaire and produced a theoretical reflection on translation based on this experience in his essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Years later, he would place Baudelaire at the centre of his attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modernity in his great unfinished work The Arcades Project. This article brings to light the relationship between translating and interpreting Baudelaire in Benjamin’s work, attempting to recover a systematicity in his thought that escapes from traditional disciplinary borders. In order to do so, it reads Benjamin’s essay on ‘The Task of the Translator’ in light of major issues that can only be clarified with reference to his later adoption of historical materialism and, conversely, it approaches Benjamin’s interpretation of Baudelaire as the writer of modern life as a revision of philosophical concerns that were first approached in his metaphysics of language and translation. A concluding section explores how such an interpretation relates to a materialist physiognomics which puts language and translation at the heart of a critique of modernity.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-02T11:42:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221097001
       
  • Max Weber and his conservative critics: Social science and the problem of
           value relativism

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      Authors: Martyn Hammersley
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In this paper some fundamental criticisms of Max Weber’s conception of the vocation of science are addressed. These well-known criticisms focus on his admission that science cannot demonstrate its own value, and his broader claim that there can be no rational basis for committing oneself to one set of ultimate values as against another. Instead, he insisted that the adoption of such values is necessarily a matter of individual decision. Influential critics have argued that this amounts to relativism, or even nihilism: that, if it were true, neither science nor anything else could have genuine value, all value-judgements would be arbitrary or entirely instrumental (e.g. a matter of self-interest). I will outline Weber’s position, and then examine the arguments of some of his critics: focussing particularly on Midgley and Strauss. This provides the basis for a careful reassessment of Weber’s position, and for some suggestions about how he could respond to these critics. It is argued that fundamental values operate in a dialectical relationship with specific evaluations, and that they arise naturally out of more or less universal features of human beings’ life experience. While this does not provide a compelling rational basis for commitment to those values, even less for prioritising one over another, it tells us why we often feel a need to uphold them. Furthermore, despite the fact that it does not guarantee agreement, rational clarification of these values and their implications, as well as appraisal of their relative significance in particular cases, is possible.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-05-27T09:58:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221096542
       
  • Adventure in the social world: Georg Simmel’s appeal to a theory of
           creative action

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      Authors: Simon Lafontaine
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Reconstructing the logic of everyday action between reproduction and invention of forms is a growing concern in contemporary debates on the praxeological foundation of sociology. This article argues for a renewed understanding of action in its contingency and creativity. Building on current developments on the role of projectivity and imagination in the emergence of the new and unexpected in action, it turns to Simmel’s undervalued essay “The Adventure” to examine a style of conduct characterized by deviation from predicable patterns and background assumptions in everyday life. To understand the emergent properties and intrinsic complexity of creative action, one must consider the philosophical discoveries of Simmel concerning the form of adventure in the subjective flow of time. The adventure is elaborated as an action involving curiosity, unfamiliar detours, and a sense of presentness as striking features that benefit insights from his later work on life’s transcendence.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-05-11T06:16:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221092667
       
  • Race and its reformulation in Max Weber: Cultural Germanism as political
           imperialism

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      Authors: Jack Barbalet
      Abstract: Journal of Classical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Weber rejected the notion of race founded on innate characteristics, and instead developed one based on cultural and political factors. The importance of Weber’s distinctive characterization of race cannot be appreciated when consideration is given only to his treatment of minorities. Examination, however, of Weber’s account of the German people as a Herrenvolk, master race, consolidated by shared cultural values and realized through the expansive practices of a Machtstaat or power-state, indicates a complex ethnonational conceptualization of race. Weber’s approach to race as an ethnonational manifestation is important for understanding his sociology as well as his commitment to German imperialism.
      Citation: Journal of Classical Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-03-17T04:44:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221083684
       
 
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