The Norms of Answerability
Social Theory Between Bakhtin and Habermas
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
272 pages
978-0-7914-8932-1 (ISBN)
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Explores the relevance of Bakhtin's thought to social theory.
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Greg M. Nielsen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Concordia University and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University. He is also the author of Le Canada de Radio-Canada: Sociologie Critique et Dialogisme Culturel.
Content
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Theory on the Borders of Sociology Syncrisis and Anacrisis: The State of Bakhtin Studies
Creativity and General Sociological Theory
The Bridge between Culture and the Political 1. Diversity and Transcultural Ethics Disciplinary Orientations
Decentered Subjects and Critiques of Discourse Ethics
The Creative Side of the Normative
The Normative Side of Creativity
Between the Creativity and the Normativity of the Act 2. Communicative Action or Dialogue? Communicative Action and Moral Development
The Limits of Universal Reason
Dialogism: Mixing the Word and Style 3. The World of Other's Words Bakhtin and Voloshinov on the Subject of the Utterance
Social and Ethical Worlds of Dialogue in Dostoevsky
The Frankfurt Tradition
Habermas's Break
Genres of Discourse in Literature and in Theory
From Dostoevsky to Calvino
Convergence and Difference 4. On the Sources of Young Bakhtin's Ethics (Kant, Vvedenskij, Simmel, Cohen) Kant's Three Postulates
Vvedenskij's Fourth Postulate
Simmel's Shadow
Bakhtin and the Formal Ought
Cohen's "Discovery of Man as Fellowman"
Influences and Steps 5. Action and Eros (Kant-Weber-Bakhtin) Kant: Duties Toward the Body Concerning the Sexual Impulse
Weber: Action, Ethics, and Eros
Bakhtin: The Fourth Postulate and Body-Dialogue
Eros and Action Today 6. Reflexive Subjectivity (Mead-Bakhtin) Philosophical and Disciplinary Orientations
Between Consciousness and Language: The Ambiguity of Experience
Murder, Confession, and Community
Why the Subject Is Behind Us
Action Inside and Outside the Subject 7. Citizenship and National Identity On the Dialogue Between Ethnos and Demos
Identity
For and against the Nation 8. A Dialogue on the Nation in Postnational Time The Nation as a Sociology of Culture: The Quebec Case
Habermas: The Nation as Subjectless Communication
Taylor: The Nation as a Politics of Concession
Kymlicka: On National Minorities
Associational Sovereignty: Fourth Way? 9. Conclusion: On Culture and the Political Notes Bibliography Index
Creativity and General Sociological Theory
The Bridge between Culture and the Political 1. Diversity and Transcultural Ethics Disciplinary Orientations
Decentered Subjects and Critiques of Discourse Ethics
The Creative Side of the Normative
The Normative Side of Creativity
Between the Creativity and the Normativity of the Act 2. Communicative Action or Dialogue? Communicative Action and Moral Development
The Limits of Universal Reason
Dialogism: Mixing the Word and Style 3. The World of Other's Words Bakhtin and Voloshinov on the Subject of the Utterance
Social and Ethical Worlds of Dialogue in Dostoevsky
The Frankfurt Tradition
Habermas's Break
Genres of Discourse in Literature and in Theory
From Dostoevsky to Calvino
Convergence and Difference 4. On the Sources of Young Bakhtin's Ethics (Kant, Vvedenskij, Simmel, Cohen) Kant's Three Postulates
Vvedenskij's Fourth Postulate
Simmel's Shadow
Bakhtin and the Formal Ought
Cohen's "Discovery of Man as Fellowman"
Influences and Steps 5. Action and Eros (Kant-Weber-Bakhtin) Kant: Duties Toward the Body Concerning the Sexual Impulse
Weber: Action, Ethics, and Eros
Bakhtin: The Fourth Postulate and Body-Dialogue
Eros and Action Today 6. Reflexive Subjectivity (Mead-Bakhtin) Philosophical and Disciplinary Orientations
Between Consciousness and Language: The Ambiguity of Experience
Murder, Confession, and Community
Why the Subject Is Behind Us
Action Inside and Outside the Subject 7. Citizenship and National Identity On the Dialogue Between Ethnos and Demos
Identity
For and against the Nation 8. A Dialogue on the Nation in Postnational Time The Nation as a Sociology of Culture: The Quebec Case
Habermas: The Nation as Subjectless Communication
Taylor: The Nation as a Politics of Concession
Kymlicka: On National Minorities
Associational Sovereignty: Fourth Way? 9. Conclusion: On Culture and the Political Notes Bibliography Index
