I would like to start by thanking Michael Strand (2023) for his thoughtful comments on my recent article, entitled ‘Lessons from Reckwitz and Rosa: Towards a Constructive Dialogue between Critical Analytics and Critical Theory’.[1] As stated in the title of… Read More ›
sociology as a discipline
Why Don’t Big Theory Books Work in the US? A Reply to Simon Susen, Part II, Michael Strand
Après Moi, Le Déluge All of this plays a role, I am arguing, in my wielding the dismissive category of “big theory” toward Reckwitz and Rosa, and the silence that mostly greets them on the part of those like me… Read More ›
Why Don’t Big Theory Books Work in the US? A Reply to Simon Susen, Part I, Michael Strand
In “Lessons from Reckwitz and Rosa: Towards a Constructive Dialogue between Critical Analytics and Critical Theory” (2023), Simon Susen provides an impressive and thorough dissection of the complicated and broad ranging arguments of two of the defining European sociologists of… Read More ›
A Hazard Called Sociology: Review of Stephen Turner’s Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory, Raphael Sassower
Years ago, I traveled on a sabbatical to South America and returned with what I thought was a derivative of my companion book on the trip, Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card (1987), thinking my thoughts and feelings deserved to be… Read More ›