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This work further develops the concepts first presented in ""Surrender and Catch"" (1976) and applied to sociology and its history in ""Survival and Sociology"" (1991) and autobiography in ""O Loma"" (1989). This idea is based on the recognition of the unprecedented nature of the present time in the history of humankind and the planet, a time when we ourselves, rather than Nature or the Deity, can annihilate both ourselves and our planet. ""Surrender"" is nonlinguistic (or prelinguistic), ""prepredicative"", ""prephenomenal"", and involves suspending or ""bracketing"" the world, calling it into question. In this book, the author explores how his hypothesis of Surrender (-and-Catch) bears on aspects of autobiography (emigre status, field work), sociology of knowledge, poetry, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory and on attitudes to our time.

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Author:   K.H. Wolff
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   166
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.190kg
ISBN:  

9780792331780

ISBN 10:   0792331788
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 June 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

One. Autobiographical.- Ch. I. “The Personal History of an Émigré”.- Ch. II. First Notes on Surrender and Autobiography.- Ch. III. “Authenticity in Loma and of ‘Loma’ ”.- Ch. IV. “Trying Sociology,” Sociology of Knowledge, Surrender-and-Catch.- Two. Surrender-and-Catch and Other Approaches to the World.- Ch. V. The Sociology of Knowledge and Surrender-and-Catch.- Ch. VI. Surrender-and-Catch and Sociology.- Ch. VII. Surrender-and-Catch, Poetry, Sociology, Morality.- Ch. VIII. Surrender-and-Catch and Phenomenology.- Ch. IX. Surrender-and-Catch and Hermeneutics.- Ch. X. Surrender-and-Catch and Critical Theory.- Three. Our Time and Its Sociological Analysis.- Ch. XI. From Nothing to Sociology.- Ch. XII. “Nineteen-Eighty-Four” and Surrender-and-Catch.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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