Philosophical Elements of A Theory of Society 英文原版 社會理論的哲學元素 Theodor Adorno

基本信息

By (author) Theodor W. Adorno

Format Paperback | 192 pages

Dimensions 152 x 228 x 15mm | 294g

Publication date 26 Mar 2019

Publisher Polity Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement 1. Auflage

ISBN10 074567948X

ISBN13 9780745679488

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內容簡介

As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would shape the work he undertook in the early 1950s as co-director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Yet he also became increasingly aware of the ‘fetishism of method’ in sociology, and saw the serious limitations of theoretical work based solely on empirical findings.

In this lecture course given in 1964, Adorno develops a critique of both sociology and philosophy, emphasizing that theoretical work requires a specific mediation between the two disciplines. Adorno advocates a philosophical approach to social theory that challenges the drive towards uniformity and a lack of ambiguity, highlighting instead the fruitfulness of experience, in all its messy complexity, for critical social analysis. At the same time, he shows how philosophy must also realise that it requires sociology if it is to avoid falling for the old idealistic illusion that the totality of real conditions can be grasped through thought alone.

Masterfully bringing together philosophical and empirical approaches to an understanding of society, these lectures from one of the most important social thinkers of the 20th century will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, sociology and the social sciences generally.

在戰爭期間流亡美國期間，西奧多·阿多諾（Theodor Adorno）逐漸熟悉經驗社會研究的基礎知識，這將影響他在1950年代初作為法蘭克福社會研究所聯合主任所做的工作。然而，他也越來越意識到社會學中的“方法拜物教”，並看到僅基於經驗發現的理論工作受到了嚴重的限制。

在1964年開設的這一講授課程中，阿多諾對社會學和哲學進行了批判，強調理論工作需要在這兩個學科之間進行特定的調解。阿多諾（Adorno）提倡一種社會理論的哲學方法，該方法挑戰朝着統一和缺乏模稜兩可的方向發展，而是強調經驗的成果，儘管雜亂無章，但對於關鍵的社會分析卻是如此。同時，他展示了哲學是如何還必須認識到，如果要避免陷入舊的唯心主義幻想中，即僅通過思考就可以掌握全部現實條件，哲學就必須認識到它需要社會學。

通過將哲學和實證方法融匯在一起來理解社會，這些來自20世紀最重要的社會思想家之一的演講將對哲學，社會學和整個社會科學的學生和學者產生極大的興趣。

作者簡介

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century in the areas of social theory, philosophy and aesthetics.