Dialogical Social Theory

Donald N. Levine (1931–2015) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago and was founder of an NGO, Aiki Extensions. He received a lifetime achievement award from the American Sociological Association.Howard G. Schneiderman is Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He has a longstanding interest in intellectual history, and has written extensively on some of sociology’s leading scholars. He has served in a variety of editorial capacities, including Executive Editor of Society and editorial consultant to Transaction Publishers. His research interests include charisma, authority, and the intersection of both of these with religion, and he has authored many articles, introductions to classic works, and essays in social theory.

• PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by Donald N. LevineEDITOR’S NOTE by Howard G. Schneiderman FOREWORD by Peter BaehrDialogue, Disputation, Dismissiveness, and Motives for Controversy: An Editor’s Introduction by Howard G. SchneidermanPART ONE. FROM COMBAT TO DIALOGUE 1. The Idea of Dialogue, 2. Dialogue and Human Combat, 3. Transforming the Adversarial Mindset: Japanese Martial Arts and American Litigation, 4. Civilizations, Clashing and Harmonious PART TWO. DIALOGUES INVOLVING SHARED OBJECTIVES Dialogue as Complementary Contributions to a Common Problem, 5. Universalism in the French Philosophes and the Russian Intelligentsia, 6. The Sociology of Morality in Parsons, Simmel, and Merton, 7. Theory and Praxis in Parsons and McKeon. Different Positions, Shared Conclusions 8. Freud and Ueshiba: Pioneers of Therapeutic Interaction 9. Dewey and Hutchins at ChicagoPART THREE. DIALOGUES INVOLVING POINTED CONFRONTATIONS Dialogue as Critical Extension and Progressive Transformation 10. Hobbes and Locke, 11. Montesquieu, Comte and Durkheim,12. Kant and Hegel. Complementary Engagement through Reciprocal Priority 13. Positions on Conflict in Euro-American and Asian Social Thought, 14. Two Tales of One City, 15. Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge References

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