Worcester Research and Publications

SEARCH EPRINTS:

USER PANEL:

Registered Users - Log in using your University of Worcester ID and Password to submit items to the repository.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION:

WRaP is a collection of research papers and university publications. It presents the academic and creative work of the university. You are welcome to look for and obtain items of interest and make contact with the authors and creators.

CONTACT DETAILS:

All correspondence about WRaP should be sent to the Repository Manager.

The Text, the Author and the Canon: Gadamar and the Persistence of Classic Texts in Sociology.

Lists

Tools

How, Alan (2007) The Text, the Author and the Canon: Gadamar and the Persistence of Classic Texts in Sociology. Journal of Classicial Sociology, 7 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 1468-795X

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Official URL: http://jcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/5

Abstract

The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authority of classics has been challenged on the grounds that they conceal a variety of ideological assumptions, tensions and discontinuities as well as being far removed from our experience of contemporary life. Drawing on Gadamer’s account of the ‘classical’ in Truth and Method, the article contests these views, arguing that classic texts are a source of intellectual vitality and should not be jettisoned. Following the introduction the article divides into two main sections. The first deals with the issue of authorship, arguing that while ‘names’ remain intrinsic to sociology, attention should remain with the text. The second employs Gadamer’s ideas to show why classic texts persist. The claim that subsequent historical horizons elicit from the text truths that continue to resonate is illustrated with Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The original article is available at http://jcs.sagepub.com/
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	authorship, sociology, Gadamer, Weber, classic texts
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Humanities
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Janet Davidson
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2008 11:47
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 16:49
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/346

Actions (login required)

View Item

Altmetric

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

© University of Worcester Henwick Grove, WR2 6AJ Tel: 01905 855000 | Materials in WRaP are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. By using WRaP you agree to abide by UK copyright laws.

Worcester Research and Publications is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.