Nietzsche and Sociology

Prophet of Affirmation

Anas Karzai (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-5051-1 (ISBN)

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Anas Karzai’s timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzai’s book highlights how Nietzsche’s observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.

This book is about Friedrich Nietzsche’s sociological reading of modern society. Nietzsche is often represented as a philosopher, but his uniquely sociological theories and ideas have either been misunderstood or ignored in the study of modern industrial society. This work seeks to examine the reasons why Nietzsche has been ignored in sociological literature, and also shows how most classical and modern sociological thinkers, including Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, among others, have been greatly influenced by him. Marxian, Durkheimian, and Weberian sociology continue to dominate the discipline of sociology, and until now no book has adequately traced Nietzsche’s influence on rethinking traditional sociological theories and concepts pertaining to the examination of the present. This book provides a compelling argument as to why sociology and social theory would benefit by returning to the sociological elements in Nietzsche’s oeuvre as a way of better understanding the founders of sociology as well as a way of exploring the ways that Nietzsche can shed light on the present social world.

Anas Karzai is lecturer in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the criminology program at Laurentian University.

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Nietzsche’s Life and Thought
Introduction
Part I: Nietzsche’s Influence on Modern Social Theory
Chapter 1 From Genealogy to Biopower: Michel Foucault (1926–84)
Chapter 2 On Negative Dialectics and Genealogy: Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69)
Chapter 3 From the Protestant Work Ethic to the Iron Cage of Modernity: Max Weber (1864–1920)
Part II: Nietzsche and Other Sociologists
Chapter 4 Nietzsche and Marx on the Limits of Enlightenment
Chapter 5 The Ascetic Sociologists: The Case of Comte and Durkheim
Part III: Nietzsche on Culture
Chapter 6 The Sociology of Culture
Chapter 7 The Sociology of Politics and History
Chapter 8 The Sociology of Knowledge
Conclusion: Toward an Affirmative Thought for Life
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 229 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-7391-5051-0 / 0739150510
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-5051-1 / 9780739150511
Zustand	Neuware