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Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of the Social Sciences

Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of the Social Sciences


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Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions—feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial—question the status of "tradition." In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken. Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction; 2: Founders of Discourse; 3: Founders of Institutions; 4: The Utility, Rhetoric, and Interpretation of Classic Texts; 5: Classicality: Criteria and Reception; 6: Canons; 7: A Concluding Look at the Three Concepts

About the Author :
Peter Baehr is professor and head of the department of sociology and social policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong as well as a fellow of the Center for Asian Pacific Studies. His books include Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences: Critical Encounters; Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes on the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage; and Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World.

Review :
-In this stunning work of disambiguation, Peter Baehr attains some remarkable clarities on the nature of classics (founders, canons) in social theory. It stands to reduce a good deal of pointless noise about these foundational questions.- --Donald N. Levine, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago "In this stunning work of disambiguation, Peter Baehr attains some remarkable clarities on the nature of classics (founders, canons) in social theory. It stands to reduce a good deal of pointless noise about these foundational questions." --Donald N. Levine, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago "In this stunning work of disambiguation, Peter Baehr attains some remarkable clarities on the nature of classics (founders, canons) in social theory. It stands to reduce a good deal of pointless noise about these foundational questions." --Donald N. Levine, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago


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  • ISBN-13: 9781412857055
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Weight: 362 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1412857058
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of the Social Sciences
  • Width: 152 mm


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