The Creativity of ActionUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 336 pages Hans Joas is one of the foremost social theorists in Germany today. Based on Joas’s celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, this work reevaluates the contribution of American pragmatism and European philosophical anthropology to theories of action in the social sciences. Joas also establishes direct ties between Mead’s work and approaches drawn from German traditions of philosophical anthropology. Joas argues for adding a third model of action to the two predominant models of rational and normative action—one that emphasizes the creative character of human action. This model encompasses the other two, allowing for a more comprehensive theory of action. Joas elaborates some implications of his model for theories of social movements and social change and for the status of action theory in sociology in the face of competition from theories advanced by Luhmann and Habermas. The problem of action is of crucial importance in both sociology and philosophy, and this book—already widely debated in Germany—will add fresh impetus to the lively discussions current in the English-speaking world. |
Table des matières
Tönnies and Georg Simmel | 65 |
Metaphors of Creativity | 116 |
Creative Democracy | 196 |
Notes | 259 |
7 | 266 |
65 | 272 |
ទី២ | 283 |
116 | 293 |
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action theory actors Alfred Schütz analysis Anthony Giddens anthropology arguments assumptions attempt Axel Honneth body schema Cambridge Castoriadis Chicago Press claim classical collective action Communicative Action concept context critical critique cultural Democracy differentiation theory economic theory Émile Durkheim empirical essay experience expression expressivist Ferdinand Tönnies Frankfurt/Main functional functionalist Georg Simmel George Herbert Mead goals Herder human action Ibid individual interpretation Jeffrey Alexander John Dewey Jürgen Habermas labour logical London Luhmann macrosociological Marx Marx's Marxism Max Weber Mead means model of rational modern morality Nietzsche Niklas Luhmann normative notion object particular phenomena philosophy political Polity Press possible pragmatism pragmatist precisely preconditions problem production psychology question rational action relationship Schopenhauer Simmel situation Social Action social movements social order social theory society sociology structures Suhrkamp Talcott Parsons theoretical theory of action thought tion Tönnies tradition University Press utilitarian values