LEADER 03482cam a2200457 i 4500001 99110028083506421 005 20240509064549.0 008 170922t20182018nyua b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2017037909 020 9781412865500 |qhardback 020 1412865506 |qhardback 020 9780815375470 |qpaperback 020 0815375476 |qpaperback 020 |z9781351294928 |qelectronic book 035 (NjP)11002808-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11002808 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11002808 035 (OCoLC)on1004769774 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dERASA |dBDX |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dYDX |dOCLCO |dIUL |dOBE 042 pcc 050 00 HM585 |b.L4849 2018 082 00 301.01 |223 100 1 Levine, Donald N., |d1931-2015 |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015394 245 10 Dialogical social theory / |cDonald N. Levine ; Howard G. Schneiderman, editor. 264 1 New York, NY : |bRoutledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, |c2018. 264 4 |c©2018 300 xviii, 221 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. 520 8 In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great late-twentieth-century sociological theorists, brings together diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and Merton are set into a dialogue with philosophers such as Hobbes, Smith, Montesquieu, Comte, Kant, and Hegel and pragmatists such as Peirce, James, Dewey, and McKeon to describe and analyze dialogical social theory. This volume is one of Levine's most important contributions to social theory and a worthy summation of his life's work. Levine demonstrates that approaching social theory with a cooperative, peaceful dialogue is a superior tactic in theorizing about society. He illustrates the advantages of the dialogical model with case studies drawn from the French Philosophes, the Russian Intelligentsia, Freudian psychology, Ushiba's aikido, and Levine's own ethnographic work in Ethiopia. Incorporating themes that run through his lifetime's work, such as conflict resolution, ambiguity, and varying forms of social knowledge, Levine suggests that while dialogue is an important basis for sociological theorizing, it still vies with more combative forms of discourse that lend themselves to controversy rather than cooperation, often giving theory a sense of standing still as the world moves forward. The book was nearly finished when Levine died in April 2015, but it has been brought to thoughtful and thought-provoking completion by his friend and colleague Howard G. Schneiderman. This volume will be of great interest to students and teachers of social theory and philosophy. 650 0 Sociology |xPhilosophy. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86006205 650 0 Social sciences |xPhilosophy. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124013 650 7 Social sciences |xPhilosophy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01122940 650 7 Sociology |xPhilosophy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01123904 700 1 Schneiderman, Howard G., |eeditor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90711895 852 0 |bf |hHM585 |i.L4849 2018 902 yj |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20181217 904 yj |ba |hm |cb |e20181217 914 (OCoLC)on1004769774 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240508 |eprocessed |f1004769774