SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 33) philosophy DrEAMS IN EXILE GeorGe e. McCarthy Dreams in Exile rediscovering Science and ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social theory Rediscovering Science and Ethics in NineteenthCentury Social Theory George E. McCarthy Examines the influence of Aristotle and Kant on the nineteenth-century social theory of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. k e l l y o l i v e r & s.k. k e l t n e r | e d i t o r s Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva The classical origins of nineteenth-century social theory are illuminated in this sequel to the award-winning Classical Horizons:The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece. George E. McCarthy stresses the importance of Aristotle and Kant in the creation of a new type of social science in the nineteenth century that represented a critical reaction to Enlightenment rationality and modern liberalism. The seminal social theorists Marx, Durkheim, and Weber integrated Aristotle’s theory of moral economy and practical wisdom (phronesis) with Kant’s theory of knowledge and moral autonomy. The resulting social theories, uniquely supported by a view of practical science that wove together science and ethics, proved instrumental to the development of modern sociology and anthropology. George E. McCarthy is National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College. His books include Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece, also published by SUNY Press; Objectivity and the Silence of Reason:Weber, Habermas, and the Methodological Disputes in German Sociology; Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas; and Dialectics and Decadence: Echoes of Antiquity in Marx and Nietzsche. APrIL • 448 pp 1 b/w photograph $80.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-2587-0 The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva’s work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva’s forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva’s thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva’s oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines. Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women’s Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her previous books include Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language and Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, both also published by SUNY Press, along with Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind and The Portable Kristeva. S. K. Keltner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Co-coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies at Kennesaw State University. A volume in the SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Charles Shepherdson, editor JUNE • 272 pp $75.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-2649-5 ? ? PSYCHOANALYSIS, AESTHETICS, AND POLITICS IN THE WOrK OF JULIA KrISTEVA Kelly Oliver and S. K. Keltner, editors Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre. oliver & keltner Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva directtext dt directtext dt e P e www.sunypress.edu 33 P http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61786 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61822
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