The norms of answerability : social theory between Bakhtin and Habermas / Greg Marc Nielsen ; foreword by Caryl Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Greg Marc, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--History.

Sociology.

Social norms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Greg M. Nielsen brings Mikhail Bakhtin's ethics and aesthetics into a dialogue with social theory that responds to the sense of ambivalence and uncertainty at the core of modern societies. Nielsen situates a social theory between Bakhtin's norms of answerability and Jürgen Habermas's sociology, ethics, and discourse theory of democracy in a way that emphasizes the creative dimension in social action without reducing explanation to the emotional and volitional impulse of the individual or collective actor. Some of the classical sources that support this mediated position are traced to Alexander Vvedenskij's and Georg Simmel's critiques of Kant's ethics, Hermann Cohen's philosophy of fellowship, and Max Weber's and George Herbert Mead's theories of action. In the shift from Bakhtin's theory of interpersonal relations to a dialogic theory of societal events that defends the bold claim that law and politics should not be completely separated from the specificity of ethical and cultural communities, a study of citizenship and national identity is developed.

Contents:

""THE NORMS OF ANSWERABILITY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""AKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""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 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 TIMES""; ""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: A Fourth Way?""; ""9. CONCLUSION: On Culture and the Political""; ""NOTES""; ""Preface""

""Introduction: Theory on the Borders of Sociology""""Chapter 1. Diversity and Transcultural Ethics""; ""Chapter 2. Communicative Action or Dialogue?""; ""Chapter 3. The World of Other�s Words""; ""Chapter 4. On the Sources of Young Bakhtin�s Ethics""; ""Chapter 7. Citizenship and National Identity""; ""Chapter 8. A Dialogue on the Nation in Postnational Times""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489321

0791489329

9780585456805

0585456801

OCLC:

52674738