How I write: Sociology as Literature

Verleihung des Gerda Henkel Preises 2008

von Richard Sennett

92 Seiten, Buch

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Inhalt:

Zum Geleit / Foreword
Julia Schulz-Dornburg

Grußwort / Preface
Annette Schavan

Begrüßung / Welcoming remarks
Michael Hanssler

Bericht der Jury / Report of the Jury
Ralf Dahrendorf

Laudatio / In honor of Richard Sennett
Wolfgang Frühwald

How I write: Sociology as Literature /
Wie ich schreibe: Soziologie als Literatur (Gerda Henkel Vorlesung)
Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett
Vita, ausgewählte Publikationen / Vita, Selected Publications

Textauszug:

. I want next, therefore, to talk about the craft of social writing. What I'm going to describe to you are issues drawn from my own experience - I certainly would not hold myself up as a shining example of writing well, and certainly there are many other solutions to the problems of expressive writing than those I've found. But the problems themselves, I would claim, are generic to socially minded literature.
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Today, many social scientists are menaced by exclusion from this public realm, due to their feeble powers of expression. This feebleness is not simply a personal failing. The history of academic institutions seeking to protect their freedom, the specialization and bureaucratization of knowledge, are general sources of intellectual isolation; the feebleness of shared intelligence is but one tangible result. The depth of what researchers know becomes incommunicable, due to a lack of expressive tools; the public is left with the husks, the surfaces of knowledge.

• Reihe: Gerda Henkel Vorlesungen
• ISBN: 9783930454938
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2009
• Genre: Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: Rhema
• Beiträge von: Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Annette Schavan, Michael Hanssler, Ralf Dahrendorf, Wolfgang Frühwald