Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice
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Harry F. Dahms, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Eric R. Lybeck, Department of Sociology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UKPhilosophy, political science, and sociology scholars from the US, UK, and Australia present nine essays mostly based on papers presented at the annual conference of the International Social Theory Consortium in the UK in June 2015. They address the need for reconstruction after a long period of deconstruction in social theory, to take account of and examine the possibility of reassembling and rebuilding what was deconstructed. They consider reconstruction in social theory, history, and practice, discussing “the True, the Good, and the Beautiful” in European social thought; Axel Honneth's work on Hegel's theory of normative reconstruction; the dichotomy between aporia and euphoria; Erving Goffman's work; Weber's social theory as a basis for understanding suffering, in addition to the work of Emmanuel Levinas; Rowan Williams, Hans-George Gadamer, and Jürgen Habermas and religion; the intellectual and political origins of the Swedish, egalitarian, democratic welfare-state ideology in the 1930s; and the political philosophy of Europe and Habermas' model of reconstruction.
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