Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists. Edited by Gisèle Sapiro, Marco Santoro, Patrick Baert

Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities 

The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists

Edited by Gisèle Sapiro, Marco Santoro, Patrick Baert

Palgrave Macmillan

Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences  

2020

 

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

This edited collection analyses the reception of a selection of key thinkers, and the dissemination of paradigms, theories and controversies across the social sciences and humanities since 1945. It draws on data collected from textbooks, curricula, interviews, archives, and references in scientific journals, from a broad range of countries and disciplines to provide an international and comparative perspective that will shed fresh light on the circulation of ideas in the social and human sciences.
The contributions cover high-profile disputes on methodology, epistemology, and research practices, and the international reception of theorists that have abiding and interdisciplinary relevance, such as: Antonio Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Karl Polanyi, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak. This important work will be a valuable resource to scholars of the history of ideas and the philosophy of the social sciences; in addition to researchers in the fields of social, cultural and literary theory.
Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the EHESS and Research Director at the CNRS, France.
Marco Santoro is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Patrick Baert is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Patrick Baert, The Existentialist Moment. The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual

Patrick Baert

The Existentialist Moment

The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual 

Polity

2015

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this remarkable transformation?

The Existentialist Moment retraces Sartre s career and provides a compelling new explanation of his meteoric rise to fame. Baert takes the reader back to the confusing and traumatic period of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath and shows how the unique political and intellectual landscape in France at this time helped to propel Sartre and existentialist philosophy to the fore. The book also explores why, from the early 1960s onwards, in France and elsewhere, the interest in Sartre and existentialism eventually waned. The Existentialist Moment ends with a bold new theory for the study of intellectuals and a provocative challenge to the widespread belief that the public intellectual is a species now on the brink of extinction.

Patrick Baert is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge  

Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals, Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert

Conflict in the Academy 
A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals 
Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert
Palgrave Pivot
2015

Présentation de l'éditeur

Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy. It shows how broad structural changes taking place within the English higher education system at the time reverberated through to local contexts, investigates the reception of theories originating in other countries and other disciplines upon English Studies in the United Kingdom, as well as demonstrating the significance of local institutional factors in structuring the form and content of the dispute. Capturing a key moment in the development of modern English Studies it reveals the social performance lying at the heart of public controversy and develops a new theory for analysing the workings and tribulations of intellectual life.

Marcus Morgan is a Fellow and College Lecturer at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Patrick Baert is Professor of Social Theory in the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK.

The Politics of Knowledge. Edited by Patrick Baert and Fernando Domínguez Rubio

The Politics of Knowledge
Edited by Patrick Baert and Fernando Domínguez Rubio
Routledge
2012  

Présentation de l'éditeur 

Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge. 

In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about ‘knowledge societies’, and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It addresses four fundamental aspects of the relation between knowledge and politics:

• the ways in which the nature of the knowledge we produce affects the nature of political activity

• how the production of knowledge calls into question fundamental political categories

• how the production of knowledge is governed and managed

• how the new technologies of knowledge produce new forms of political action.

This book will be of interest to students of sociology, political science, cultural studies and science and technology studies.

Introduction: The Politics of Knowledge, Fernando D. Rubio and Patrick Baert
1. The Politics of Public Reason, Sheila Jasanoff
2. The Politics of Non-knowing: An Emerging Area of Social and Political Conflict in Reflexive Modernity, Ulrich Beck and Peter Wehling
3. Technology, Legal Knowledge and Citizenship: On the Care of Locked-in Syndrome Patients, Fernando D. Rubio and Javier Lezaun
4. ‘Step Inside: Knowledge Freely Available’. The Politics of (making) Knowledge-objects, James Leach
5. Informal Knowledge and its Enablements: The Role of the New Technologies, Saskia Sassen
6. Secularisation and the Politics of Religious Knowledge, Bryan S. Turner
7. Social Fluidity: The Politics of a Theoretical Model, Fernando J. García Selgas
8. Collateral Realities, John Law 9. Transforming the Intellectual, Patrick Baert and Alan Shipman

 

Patrick Baert is Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, and also Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His publications include Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (with F. Carreira da Silva, 2010), and Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society (with S.Koniordos, G.Procacci and C.Ruzza, 2010).

Fernando Domínguez Rubio is a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at New York University and the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University