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Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a
book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for
almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and
transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary
capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane
as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more
prominent: the "Contradictions of the Welfare State" (the title of
a collection of Offe's main contributions to the debate published
in English in 1984) and democratic capitalism's reality of the
permanent "crises of crisis management". Since 2008, it has again
become a widely shared diagnosis that advanced capitalism is in
crisis. However, there is either scholarly disagreement or (more
often so) mere perplexity when it comes to understanding this
crisis and to explaining the prevalent patterns in dealing with it.
In this volume, Jens Borchert and Stephan Lessenich critically
combine a reconstruction Claus Offe's approach to state theory with
an analysis of the current constellation of democratic capitalism
based on that same theory. In doing so, they expertly argue that
his relational approach to state theory is much better equipped
analytically to grasp the contradictory dynamics of the financial
crisis and its political regulation than competing contributions.
This is why systematically revisiting the theory of "late
capitalism" is not only of a historical concern, but constitutes an
essential contribution to a political sociology of our time.
Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a
book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for
almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and
transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary
capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane
as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more
prominent: the "Contradictions of the Welfare State" (the title of
a collection of Offe's main contributions to the debate published
in English in 1984) and democratic capitalism's reality of the
permanent "crises of crisis management". Since 2008, it has again
become a widely shared diagnosis that advanced capitalism is in
crisis. However, there is either scholarly disagreement or (more
often so) mere perplexity when it comes to understanding this
crisis and to explaining the prevalent patterns in dealing with it.
In this volume, Jens Borchert and Stephan Lessenich critically
combine a reconstruction Claus Offe's approach to state theory with
an analysis of the current constellation of democratic capitalism
based on that same theory. In doing so, they expertly argue that
his relational approach to state theory is much better equipped
analytically to grasp the contradictory dynamics of the financial
crisis and its political regulation than competing contributions.
This is why systematically revisiting the theory of "late
capitalism" is not only of a historical concern, but constitutes an
essential contribution to a political sociology of our time.
Dieses Buch ist die stark iiberarbeitete Fassung meiner
Dissertation, die ich in der Zeit von Oktober 1990 bis Juli 1993 an
der Universitat Bremen im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs "Lebenslauf
und Sozialpolitik" verfaBt babe. Ich m6chte an dieser Stelle einer
Reihe von Personen und Institutionen danken, ohne deren
Unterstiitzung ich mein Promotionsvorl: taben weder harte beginnen,
durchfiihren noch vollenden konnen. Ich danke zunachst Herm Theo
Schiller, der mir wahrend meines Studiums an der
Philipps-Universitat Malburg ein iiberaus einfluBreicherund stets
einfiihlsamer Lehrer war und mit einem h6chst schmeichelha: ften
Fmp- fehlungsschreiben meinen Weg in das Bremer Graduiertenkolleg
ebnete. So- dann der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) sowie
der Universitat bzw. dem Land Bremen fur die melujahrige
finanzielle und materielle Unter- stiitzung meines Projekts. Femer
den beiden Trngerinstitutionen des Kollegs, dem Zentrum fur
Sozialpolitik (ZeS) und dem SondeIforschungsbereich 186
("Statuspassagen und Risikolagen im Lebensverlauf'), insbesondere
den VerwaltungsmitaIbeiterinnen beider Hauser. Mein besonderer Dmk.
gilt selbstverstiindlich allen StipendiatInnen und KollegiatInnen
sowie der Verwaltung des Graduiertenkollegs, die drei Jahre lang
nicht nur meine wissenschaftliche Albeit begleitet, sondem auch
meinen Lebensalltag mitgepriigt baben. Peter Bleses und Olaf Struck
danke ich fur ihre Kommentierung meiner Albeit insbesondere in der
schwierigen AnlaufPhase; Rieke Hafuer-Wemet danke ich, verbunden
mit einer pauscha- len Bitte urn Verzeihung, einfach nur so. Dmk.
gebiihrt auch Karl Schumann, 13 der in seiner Zeit als Sprecher des
Kollegs viel fur dessen (und darnit mei- nen) Erfolg getan hat.
Was sind die Bedingungen der Moeglichkeit, was sind die Grenzen der
erfolgreichen Etablierung sozialpolitischer Innovationen in der
sozialen Welt? Dieser Frage geht die Arbeit nach durch Analyse von
Wissensstrukturen. Die Analytik des "Konflikts von Strukturen und
Deutungsmustern" nutzt die Spannung zwischen Bourdieu und
Oevermann. Als exemplarische Innovationen kommen die Idee eines
Grundeinkommens und Evaluation als Instrument in der Sozialen
Arbeit in den Forschungsfokus.
Das Handbuch ist das erste im deutschsprachigen Raum, in dem
Geschichte, Theorie und Praxisfelder der Öffentlichen Soziologie
umrissen werden. Damit wird einerseits an die Tradition der Public
Sociology angeknüpft, andererseits aber auf die Relevanz einer
kritisch reflektierenden Soziologie verwiesen, die ihre
Bezugspunkte auch außerhalb der Disziplin findet.
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Sociology, Capitalism, Critique (Paperback)
Hartmut Rosa, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Doerre; Translated by Jan-Peter Herrmann, Loren Balhorn
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For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public
discourse; the very word "capitalism" sounded like a throwback to
another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this
new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a
contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an
empirically grounded diagnosis of society's ills. The authors,
Germany's leading critical sociologists-Klaus Doerre, Stephan
Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa-share a conviction that ours is a
pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of
academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working
to prevent any regressive development that might return us to
neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as
questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and
freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and
acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes
the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society's
future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective
approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation
in the institutional practices of the academy. These three
differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful
introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in
capitalism's post-crisis phase.
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