This book was written to stimulate, perhaps to provoke critical thought about Germany's past, present, and future--in Germany. This is a professional sociologist's study of the country to which he belongs not merely because it is written in his passport.
This book was written to stimulate, perhaps to provoke critical thought about Germany's past, present, and future--in Germany. This is a professional ...
Revolutions are melancholy moments in history--brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions, like 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, but applies to lesser political upheavals as well. Conflict builds into a state of tense confrontation, like a powder keg. When a spark is thrown, an explosion takes place and the old edifice begins to crumble. People are caught up in an initial mood of elation, but it does not last. Normality catches up.
Why do revolutions occur? In this completely revised edition of The Modern Social...
Revolutions are melancholy moments in history--brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the forty years that preceded the Wall's fall. The rise of a new Europe prompts many questions, most of which remain to be answered. What does it all mean? Where is it going to lead? Are we witnessing the conclusion of an era without seeing anything to replace an old and admittedly dismal way of life? What will a market economy do to the social texture of various countries of Central Europe? Will it not make some...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our world that have resulted bear...
By choosing the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, the editors wished to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach. This volume of essays by Geremek, Goncz, Plesu, Michnik, Kornai, Lepenies and other brilliant intellectuals, was dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday.
By choosing the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, the editors wished to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach...
The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Must revolutions fail? Certainly, the open society has its own problems, not least that of citizens in search of meaning. The Good Society has to square the circle of prosperity, civility and liberty. Social science can help us understand what needs to be done, and intellectuals have a responsibility to initiate and accompany change. All this raises questions for Europe which extend far beyond the all too narrow confines of the European Union.
The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Must revolutions fail? Certainly, t...
The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals. Throughout the nine years of its existence it helped to punch holes through the cultural iron curtain by encouraging translations and a "common market of the mind" between East and West. The Project's history-- told here by some of its leading participants-- illuminates the nature of the recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers an...
Der vorliegende Versuch war ursprunglich Teil einer nicht zur Veroffent- lichung bestimmten Festschrift aus Anla des 65. Geburtstages meines verehrten Lehrers, des Gottinger Ordinarius fur Philosophie Josef Konig, am 24. Februar 1958. Der Aufsatz erschien dann in zwei Teilen in den Heften 2 und 3 des 10. Jahrganges der Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Dem Westdeutschen Verlag bin ich fur die Bereitschaft zu Dank verpflichtet, einen unveranderten Abdruck dieser Fassung nunmehr gesondert herauszubringen. Thema und Absicht der uberlegungen zur Gestalt des homo...
Der vorliegende Versuch war ursprunglich Teil einer nicht zur Veroffent- lichung bestimmten Festschrift aus Anla des 65. Geburtstages meines verehrten...
Der "Homo Sociologicus" ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. Mit einem Nachwort von Heinz Abels. "Das Vergnugen, das die Lekture des schlanken Bandes noch immer bereitet, sei den Studenten gegonnt ...]." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19.1.2007 "Ralf Dahrendorfs vor bald einem halben Jahrhundert erschienenen Homo Sociologicus' ein klassikverdachtiges Buch zu nennen, ware eine Untertreibung. ...] Der schmalen Schrift ist es nicht unwesentlich zu verdanken, dass der Begriff der sozialen Rolle auch in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie heimisch hat werden konnen ...]." Neue Zurcher...
Der "Homo Sociologicus" ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. Mit einem Nachwort von Heinz Abels. "Das Vergnugen, das die Lekture des schlanken Bande...
