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Transformation in the Writing, A Case of Surrender-and-Catch 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 involves 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. This is the best any individual can do, in view of the point of crisis at which we are now. In Transformation in the Writing Wolff 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:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Volume:   166
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9789048144785

ISBN 10:   9048144787
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   04 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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