Between Literature and Science
The Rise of Sociology
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- Author: Wolf Lepenies
- Translator: R. J. Hollingdale
- Date Published: June 1988
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521338103
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The theme of this book is the conflict that arose in the early nineteenth century between the literary and scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the new industrial society in which they lived. Sociology was conceived as the third major discipline, a hybrid of the scientific and literary traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the new discipline by discussing the lives and works of the most prominent thinkers of the time, in England, France, and Germany. The book presents a penetrating study of idealists grappling with reality when industrial society was in its infancy. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation.
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"Lepenies offers us an historical record. He does not evaluate the contributions of literature and sociology, or of literary sociology, to public exegesis. The book is a spectacular record of the internecine strife among exegetes. The author's international erudition is remarkable, control of materials masterly, his method careful and thorough, and his writing dramatic." Samuel Z. Klausner, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
See more reviews"This is an immensely learned and fascinating essay in intellectual history. Originally published in German in 1985, it has now been made available in a remarkably fluent translation." Fritz Ringer, Journal of Modern History
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- Date Published: June 1988
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521338103
- length: 400 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 150 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. France:
1. The transformations of Auguste Comte: science and literature in early positivism
2. Agathon and others: literature and sociology in France at the turn of the century
Part II. England:
3. Facts and culture of the feelings: John Stuart Mill
4. The unwritten novel: Breatrice Webb
5. The utopian novel as a substitute for sociology: H. G. Wells
6. Concealed sociology: English literary criticism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Part III. Germany:
7. Prologue: artisan and poet too: W. H. Riehl
8. Hostility to science and faith in poetry as a German ideology
9. A German speciality: poetry and literature in opposition
10. Disciplines in competition: sociology and history
11. Remoteness from society and hostility towards sociology in Stefan George's circle
12. Stefan George, Georg Simmel, Max Weber
13. Weberian motifs in the work of Thomas Mann
14. The German spirit in peril: E. R. Curtius, Karl Mannheim and T. S. Eliot
13. Epilogue: sociology in National Socialist Germany and afterwards
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