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Franz Neumann was a member of a generation that saw the end of the Kaiserreich and the beginnings of a democratic republic carried by the labor movement. In Neumann's case, this involved a practical and professional commitment, first, to the trade union movement and, second, to the Social Democratic Party that gave it political articulation. For Neumann, to be a labor lawyer in the sense developed by his mentor, Hugo Sinzheimer, was to engage in a project to displace the law of property as the basic frame of human relations. The defeat of Weimar and the years of exile called many things into question for Neumann, but not the conjunction between a practical democratic project to establish social rights and an effort to find a rational strategy to explain the failures, and to orient a new course of conduct. "Learning from Franz Neumann" pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science. Neumann was a remarkably effective teacher in the last years of his life, but he was also a gifted learner, whose negotiations with a series of forceful thinkers enabled him to work toward a promising intellectual strategy in political thinking.

Focusing on the life and ideas of Adam Ferguson, this comprehensive study by David Kettler provides insights into Ferguson's contributions alongside contemporaries like David Hume and Adam Smith. The new preface contextualizes Ferguson's work within the broader intellectual landscape, while the afterword delves into "An Essay on the History of Civil Society," highlighting its relevance to contemporary debates surrounding civil society. This book serves as a valuable resource for understanding Ferguson's enduring influence on social and political thought.

In a series of focused studies related to the event that has generated the richest literature in exile studies - the intellectual exiles arising out of Nazi rule - this volume reconsiders a number of issues raised by that literature, notably the multiple, complex and changing negotiating processes and bargaining structures constitutive of exile, especially as the question of return interplays with the politics of memory.

This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research programme. The authors show how contemporary work along these lines can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy. It returns Mannheim's sociology of knowledge inquiries into the broader context of a wider project in historical and cultural sociology, whose promising development was disrupted and then partially obscured by the expulsion of Mannheim's intellectual generation. This inspired volume will appeal to sociologists concerned with the contemporary relevance of his work, and who are prepared for a fresh look at Weimar sociology and the legacy of Max Weber.

The history of American universities is punctuated by shifts in the terms on which the mission of higher education is defined and debated. A dramatic moment with lasting effects came with the introduction of German-speaking exile intellectuals in the Hitler era. In Germany, the academic culture of the early twentieth century was torn by the struggle between Wissenschaft and Bildung, two symbolic German terms, whose lack of precise English equivalents is a sign of the different configuration in America. The studies in this book examine the achievements of numerous influential émigré intellectuals against the background of their mediation between the two cultural traditions in science and liberal studies. In showing the richness of reciprocal influences, the book challenges claims about the disruptive influence of exile culture on the American mind.

Dieser Band bietet eine Neuinterpretation des Werkes einer der Schlüsselfiguren der modernen Soziologie. Als Schüler von Georg Simmel und Alfred Weber und früher Anhänger von Georg Lukács hat Karl Mannheim an einer Soziologie gearbeitet, die es Menschen erlaubt, rationale Entscheidungen über die Gesellschaft zu treffen, die sie aufzubauen wünschen. Auf der Basis auch bisher noch unveröffentlichten Materials untersuchen die Autoren Mannheims Wissenssoziologie; seinen Versuch, eine Wissenschaft von der Politik zu schaffen; seine Arbeit über zeitgenössische Geschichte, seine Ideen in bezug auf Planung, Organisation und Kontrolle sowie seine Auffassungen über die ethische und politische Verantwortung der zu so großem Einfluß gelangten Soziologie. Die drei Autoren dieses Bandes haben in der stw bereits zwei Bände mit Schriften von Karl Mannheim herausgegeben und eingeleitet: »Strukturen des Denkens« (stw 298) und »Konservatismus«. »Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des Wissens« (stw 478). In der stw liegen auch zwei von Volker Meja und Nico Stehr herausgegebene Bände vor: »Der Streit um die Wissenssoziologie« (stw 361).