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Translations
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38–40
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The commentary speaks about the way some so different traditions of thought – such as Heidegger, Benjamin, Foucault, Aristotle - are being put together in Agamben’s analysis of non-structured power in the modern western world. The commentary is interested in the Agamben’s uncommon way of investigation by exploiting so unregular notions as “idleness”, “aura” and ‘caesura”. It is shown that by doing this Agamben discovers the “profanation” strategy as a way of possible emancipation in the world that seems have lost any divine dimension and is nearly reduced to a “naked life”. And if a concentration camp really has become a paradigm of modernity the power in this model is based on the appropriation of the sacred. Once the sacred being brought back in to the world it reveals the profane essence of this one. |
Review essays
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47–54
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"New philosophy" in France is a social and philosophical phenomenon of 1970s, which features intense social and political activities and aspiration for a particular and continuous philosophical concept and ideology. "Social ontology" created by the new philosophers B.-H. Levy, A.Glucksmann, M. Clavel and others, has become an important step in the development of philosophy of power. It transforms power as a crucial political category into a notion of general outlook and "the new" consider it to be a metaphysical origin. This article examines main issues within this concept from the point of view of its theoretical sources and possible applications. |
Book reviews
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55–63
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The review of one of the most fundamental Paul Ricoeur’s books «Time and Narrative» demonstrates the perspectives and limitations of using the concept of narrative in sociological investigations of experience and scientific knowledge. The author of the review shows the logic of Ricoeur’s argumentation concerning the embeddedness of human experience in a narrative and the problem of interrelationship between narrative and time. The attention is focused on the notions, constituting the conception of narrative: «configuration», «episodic and universal connections of events». Apart from this, we put forward Ricoeur’s thesis that the knowledge of historical and social sciences is juxtaposed with experience via narrative. In order to argue for his theoretical position Ricoeur offers an original interpretation of M. Weber’s methodological program. The application of narrative construction in a scientific explanation is considered with reference to causal analysis. |
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64–70
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Main themes of the book are critically analyzed in this review. The work of Werner Gephart, it is argued, must be seen as a program for a new trend in cultural sociology. |
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71–74
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The last book by S. Kravchenko “Non-linear socio-cultural dynamics: game-ization approach” is reviewed. In the review beginning the author divides game-ization concept from classical “game” concept. Such procedure is necessary for explanation of theoretical novelty of the book. Its’ advantages and disadvantages are analyzed in the review. The disadvantage is unveiled as rather a weak evidence of game-ization being the key factor of contemporary socio-cultural dynamics. According to the review, the main book’s advantage is combination of theoretical approach originality and link with postclassical paradigms. Detailed analysis of game-ization link with the whole sociology of 20th century (from Sorokin till Ritzer) is also an important part of the article. |
Papers and essays
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75–87
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The Other and the Stranger are considered as the successive abstractions for the basic/elementary/ontological notion of Social. The Other specified as logical abstraction (performed through the phenomenological philosophy and pragmatism) presupposes the uncertainty of the Stranger as social abstraction (in phenomenological social theory and in functional sociology of space). |
In memoriam
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88–90
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The obituary is devoted to life and career of an eminent Russian sociologist Yuri N. Davydov. |
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91–103
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The interview with Y.N. Davydov presents a detailed narrative about the path to science, books and people, which influenced the world view, about the twists and turns of relationships with authorities and colleagues, an atmosphere in social sciences in the 1950-s –1960-s. The interview tells about the views hidden behind «the criticism of bourgeois philosophy and sociology» and at a greater length about the reception of western ideas by Soviet sociology, about discussions and conflicts in academic environment of that period. |
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