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Transformation in the Writing

A Case of Surrender-and-Catch

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Kurt H. Wolff

    1. Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 166)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Autobiographical

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. “The Personal History of an Émigré”

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 3-15

    3. First Notes on Surrender and Autobiography

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 16-28

    4. “Authenticity in Loma and of ‘Loma’”

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 29-43

    5. “Trying Sociology,” Sociology of Knowledge, Surrender-and-Catch

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 44-52

  3. Surrender-and-Catch and Other Approaches to the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. The Sociology of Knowledge and Surrender-and-Catch

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 55-67

    3. Surrender-and-Catch and Sociology

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 68-91

    4. Surrender-and-Catch, Poetry, Sociology, Morality

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 92-111

    5. Surrender-and-Catch and Phenomenology

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 112-130

    6. Surrender-and-Catch and Hermeneutics

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 131-148

    7. Surrender-and-Catch and Critical Theory

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 149-166

  4. Our Time and its Sociological Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. From Nothing to Sociology

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 169-193

    3. “Nineteen-Eighty-Four” and Surrender-and-Catch

      • Kurt H. Wolff
      Pages 194-203

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-223
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About this book

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogni­ tive forms. He published Trying Sociology in 1974, which contains his writings on sociology, and Surrender and Catch: Experience and Inquiry Today in 1976, which contains his writings on surrender-and-catch. In more recent years, he has published two books, 0 Loma! Constituting a Self (1977-1984) in 1989 and Survival and Sociology: Vindicating the Human Subject (1991). Both of the more recent books add a third vein which is autobiographical and which moves back and forth between the previously established approaches in the earlier works. Transformation in the Writing is the most ambitious to date, because, as Wolff points out in the beginning, it contains writings that "fall quite obviously into three classes: autobiographical; sociology of knowledge, sociology, poetry, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory; and our time and its sociological analysis. " The task of this book is to illuminate the connections among these three classes. Wolff has engaged in autobiographical writing his entire life, though this approach to writing has only in recent years grown closer to his intel­ lectual preoccupations with sociology and philosophy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

    Kurt H. Wolff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transformation in the Writing

  • Book Subtitle: A Case of Surrender-and-Catch

  • Authors: Kurt H. Wolff

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8412-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3178-0Published: 30 June 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4478-5Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8412-8Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 224

  • Topics: Phenomenology, History, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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