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Authority, Culture,
and Communication
The Sociology of Ernest Manheim
Einzeltitel|Synchron
Edited by Frank Baron, David N. Smith, and Charles Reitz
Like other exiles of his generation 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 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 developed a transformative
social logic of the public sphere thirty
years before Jürgen Habermas did. His multicultural
cosmopolitanism and his critique of
the patriarchal family remain at the cutting
edge of social and cultural theory today.
With contributions by
Stefanie Averbeck, Frank Baron, Jean van Delinder,
Tibor Frank, Ernest Manheim, Frank T.
Manheim, Charles Reitz, David Norman
Smith, Elfriede Üner, Elisabeth Welzig
2005, XII u. 308 Seiten
Brosch., € 34,80
ISBN 978-3-935025-57-7
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