Works by Kurt H. Wolff
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- Son De La Loma [musical Group].Kurt H. Wolff &Alan Mandell -1989
- A Whole, a Fragment.Kurt H. Wolff &Joy Gordon -2002 - Lexington Books.In this extended prose poem—a text that reads as much as a work of art as important scholarship—Kurt H. Wolff has created a work of phenomenology that goes far beyond the typical methods of empirical social science to embrace field work as an extraordinary openness to being. Including personal letters to Wolff from Hannah Arendt and Hermann Bloch, the book portrays a fertile mind's reckoning with pre-phenomenal being in a way that dances between the realms of intellectual consideration and the (...) surrender of will to the intoxication of lived experience. (shrink)
- Exploring relations between surrender-and-catch and poetry, sociology, evil.Kurt H. Wolff -1986 -Human Studies 9 (4):347 - 364.
- Georg Simmel, 1858-1918.Kurt H. Wolff -1959 - Columbus,: Ohio State University Press.
- Introduction.Kurt H. Wolff -1980 -Human Studies 3 (1):309 - 310.No categories
- Surrender-and-catch and phenomenology.Kurt H. Wolff -1984 -Human Studies 7 (3-4):191 - 210.No categories
- The sociology of knowledge: Emphasis on an empirical attitude.Kurt H. Wolff -1943 -Philosophy of Science 10 (2):104-123.Two distinct attitudes have been adopted by investigators in the field of the sociology of knowledge. One of them may be called speculative; the other, empirical. The central interest of an investigator having the speculative attitude lies in developing a theory of the sociology of knowledge. The central interest of investigators having the empirical attitude lies in finding out or explaining concrete phenomena; the theory is employed, implicitly or explicity, for this purpose. The existence of the two attitudes may be (...) in part explained, as far as the German sociology of knowledge is concerned, by reference to the history of this school, which has grown out of and has been determined by a Marxist and materialistic philosophy, and especially by the use of this philosophy as a political instrument in the struggle of the emerging proletariat against the bourgeoisie. This statement, however, must be supplemented by a short location of the four most important contributors to the theory of the German sociology of knowledge. Max Scheler approaches the problem phenomenologically; he was the first and only one to ask the fundamental question, “What is knowledge?” Karl Mannheim, though markedly influenced by the Marxist viewpoint, particularly by Lukács, seems to me more adequately characterized by stressing his development from a more exclusively speculative to a more decidedly empirical attitude, which latter is especially evident in his most recent book, Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. Alexander von Schelting's main contribution is his thorough logical analysis of Mannheim's theory in the light of Max Weber's methodology. Ernst Grünwald has given the most complete survey of the forerunners, the history, and the various contributions of the sociology of knowledge. These four thinkers are indirectly dependent on the historically determined emphasis of the movement on ideology in that they remain on the level of a theoretical discussion without arriving at factual research. (shrink)
- A Whole, a Fragment.Kurt H. Wolff -2003 -Human Studies 26 (3):337-342.No categories
- Essays on sociology and philosophy: by Emile Durkheim et al., with appraisals of Durkheim's life and thought by Paul Bohannan and others.Emile Durkheim &Kurt H. Wolff -1964 - Harper & Row.
- Surrender-and-catch and hermeneutics.Kurt H. Wolff -1984 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 10 (1):1-15.No categories
- The Critical spirit.Herbert Marcuse,Kurt H. Wolff &Barrington Moore (eds.) -1967 - Boston,: Beacon Press.Introduction: What is the critical spirit?--Utopianism, ancient and modern, by M.I. Finley.--Primitive society in its many dimensions, by S. Diamond.--Manicheanism in the Enlightenment, by R.H. Popkin.--Schopenhauer today, by M. Horkheimer.--Beginning in Hegel and today, by K.H. Wolff.--The social history of ideas: Ernst Cassirer and after, by P. Gay.--Policies of violence, from Montesquieu to the Terrorist, by E.V. Walter.--Thirty-nine articles: toward a theory of social theory, by J.R. Seeley.--History as private enterprise, by H. Zinn.--From Socrates to Plato, by H. Meyerhoff.--Rational society (...) and irrational art, by H. Read.--The quest for the Grail; Wagner and Morris, by C.E. Schorske.--Valéry; Monsieur Teste, by L. Goldmann.--History and existentialism in Sartre, by L. Krieger.--German popular biographies; culture's bargain counter, by L. Lowenthal.--The Rechtsstaat as magic wall, by O. Kirchheimer. (shrink)
- From nothing to sociology.Kurt H. Wolff -1989 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (3):321-339.
- I feel I am.Kurt H. Wolff -2001 -Human Studies 24 (3):177-186.No categories
- Surrender and the body.Kurt H. Wolff -1974 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 2 (1):19-60.No categories
- Sociology, phenomenology, and surrender-and-catch.Kurt H. Wolff -1972 -Synthese 24 (3-4):439 - 471.
- The unique and the general: Toward a philosophy of sociology.Kurt H. Wolff -1948 -Philosophy of Science 15 (3):192-210.1. Philosophy of Science. The term “philosophy of science” is used here to refer to the study of the approaches and methodologies of the sciences. By “approach” is understood the totality of the presuppositions of a given science : more precisely, both philosophical and scientific presuppositions—that is, categories, postulates, and premises as conditions—and “existential” presuppositions. By “methodology” is understood the intellectual-emotional structure of a given science—that is, its categories, postulates, and premises as characteristics, as well as its concepts, methods, and (...) techniques. Further, I advocate understanding a given science through a study of its approach and of its methodology. Finally, I submit that the best understanding of either of the two is impossible without the study of the other. More specifically, I advocate the consideration of a particular science as a given, and the interpretation of its intellectual structure or methodology ; and then the study of its presuppositions or underlying approach. (shrink)
- Philosophy, Science and the Sociology of Knowledge.Kurt H. Wolff -1963 -Philosophy of Science 30 (1):89-93.
- Anomie and the sociology of knowledge, in Durkheim and today.Kurt H. Wolff -1988 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (1):53-67.
- Sociology and meaning.Kurt H. Wolff -1993 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 19 (3-4):287-292.
- Simmel Symposium.George Psathas,Kurt H. Wolff,H. Wolff,A. Whole,A. Fragment,Greg Johnson &Merleau-Pontian Phenomenology as Non-Conventionally -2003 -Human Studies 26:513-515.Export citation
Bookmark - A first response to the preceding essays.Kurt H. Wolff -1993 -Human Studies 16 (3):353 - 357.No categories
- A very brief commentary on Helmut R. Wagner's “between ideal type and surrender”.Kurt H. Wolff -1978 -Human Studies 1 (1):165 - 166.
- Beginning, continuation, and future.Kurt H. Wolff -2002 -Human Studies 25 (4):507-508.No categories
- Containing the ineluctable.Kurt H. Wolff -2003 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 29 (3):341-350.
- Discussion of Wagner, Imber, and Rasmussen.Kurt H. Wolff -1984 -Human Studies 7 (3-4):133 - 139.No categories
- Essays on sociology, philosophy, and aesthetics.Kurt H. Wolff -1959 - New York,: Harper & Row.
- From" Dualism of Human Nature" to" Human Being as a Mixed Phenomenon".Kurt H. Wolff -1995 -Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 164:235-235.Export citation Bookmark
- Hingebung und Begriff.Kurt H. Wolff -1968 - [Neuwied]: Luchterhand.
- Into Alfred Schütz's World.Kurt H. Wolff -1989 -Analecta Husserliana 26:73.
- Introduction to fifty years of 'sociology of knowledge'.Kurt H. Wolff -1975 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 3 (1):1-6.No categories
- Émile Durkheim, 1858-1917.Kurt H. Wolff -1961 -Les Etudes Philosophiques 16 (2):281-281.Export citation Bookmark
- On the scientific relevance of "imputation".Kurt H. Wolff -1950 -Ethics 61 (1):69-73.
- On the significance of Hannah Arendt's the human condition for sociology.Kurt H. Wolff -1961 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 4 (1-4):67 – 106.Arendt's book is an analysis of the vita activa, which comprises the three human activities of labor, work, and action. Her presentation involves a critique of modern and current conceptions of them and of many other social phenomena, and an emphasis on distinctions customarily neglected. The interpretation of her book, disregarding the many factual statements it contains, proceeds in a theoretical vein, analyzing her major conceptions, and then turns practical, asking what we as social scientists who listen to her must (...) do (focusing on ?behavior? and ?action?, ?values?, the means?end scheme, and man's historicity and dualism). The paper concludes with a brief explication of areas of research seen to emerge out of Arendt's work. (shrink)
- Preface.Kurt H. Wolff -1984 -Human Studies 7 (3-4):105-106.
- Surrender and Catch: Experience & Inquiry Today.Kurt H. Wolff -1981 -Human Studies 4 (4):391-396.No categories
- Short review.Kurt H. Wolff -1979 -Human Studies 4 (1):97-104.No categories
- Scheler's Shadow on Us.Kurt H. Wolff -1983 -Analecta Husserliana 14:113.Export citation Bookmark
- Surrender to Morality as the Morality of Surrender.Kurt H. Wolff -1983 -Analecta Husserliana 15:495.Export citation Bookmark
- The conflict in modern culture and other essays.Kurt H. Wolff -1970 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 8 (2):236-241.
- Toward things and the good society.Kurt H. Wolff -1998 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 24 (4):63-77.In loving memory of Herbert Marcuse, who in the 1920s heard Husserl and in the 1960s came to be the voice of the rebelling students.
- This, Yes!1.Kurt H. Wolff -2004 -Human Studies 27 (4):349-359.
- Versuch zu einer Wissenssoziologie.Kurt H. Wolff -1968 - [Berlin]: Luchterhand.
- What It Contains.Kurt H. Wolff &Eleanor M. Godway -2002 - Lexington Books.What It Contains brings together the newest and most important essays of one of the most eminent and creative twentieth-century social theorists, Kurt H. Wolff. More than simply a collection of essays, this is a unified book with a highly self-reflexive and self-referential commentary running throughout the text. Extending and expanding on some of Wolff's important earlier work, the book covers topics that are of vital importance today: surrrender-and-catch, the ineluctable, man as a mixed phenomenon, and the paradox of socialization.
- Writing my approach to the world.Kurt H. Wolff -2003 -Human Studies 26 (3):293-308.No categories
- Writing as Transformation. [REVIEW]Kurt H. Wolff -2000 -Human Studies 23 (3):333-338.No categories
- A rejoinder, which turns out to be loma or the good society. [REVIEW]Kurt H. Wolff -1996 -Human Studies 19 (3):359 - 364.
- Book review. [REVIEW]Kurt H. Wolff -1991 -Human Studies 14 (1):99-104.No categories
- Thomas Burger, "Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws, and Ideal Types". [REVIEW]Kurt H. Wolff -1980 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 18 (1):103.
- The Critical Spirit Essays in Honor of Herbert Marcuse. Edited by Kurt H. Wolff and Barrington Moore. With the Assistance of Heinz Lubasz, Maurice R. Stein and E.V. Walter. --.Kurt H. Wolff,Barrington Moore &Herbert Marcuse -1967 - Beacon Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
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