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It has been over 60 years since David Riesman’s most famous work The Lonely Crowd brought him international acclaim. While this remains a best-selling sociology book, Riesman’s expertise and publications spanned far beyond the treatment of the American social character type offered there. This volume recasts and reintroduces Riesman by presenting newly discovered and unpublished manuscripts of his work, including excerpts from a previously unpublished critical biography of Freud that Riesman began with this assistant at the time, Philip Rieff, an interview in which Riesman describes in detail his early biography and his route into the social sciences, and other research notes and memoranda. With additional chapters analyzing the unpublished works, as well as discussions of Riesman as a public intellectual, his multi-disciplinary method of understanding society and his connections with figures such as Goffman and Fromm, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and the history of American social science. Review David Riesman was American sociology's great public intellectual of the 20th century. Riesman theorized about society and social character, cared about undergraduate teaching and higher education and intervened in the world effectively on questions of the nuclear arms race and the Berlin crisis in the early 1960s. These unpublished Riesman manuscripts and original essays on his ideas and life are an indispensable resource for understanding the pre-history of public sociology. --Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University, Canada David Riesman was a major public intellectual of the second half of the last century, his views regularly solicited by major media and institutions. This volume collects some of his unpublished papers - lectures, letters, speeches, uncompleted articles - on a range of subjects, which illustrate his amazing fertility of mind, his talent as a writer and phrase-maker, and his unique ability to discern, from simple engagement with individuals and aspects of popular culture, significant trends in American society that now give him the aura of a prophet. --Nathan Glazer, Harvard University, USA About the Author Keith Kerr is Associate Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University, USA and author of Postmodern Cowboy: C. Wright Mills and a New 21st Century Sociology. B. Garrick Harden is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lamar University, USA and co-editor of Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies. Marcus Aldredge is Assistant Professor of Sociology at at Iona College, USA and author of Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics. Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican and Kemalist view of secularism to a more Anglo-Saxon perspective. Turkish society thus constitutes an interesting case that blurs modernist distinctions between the secular and the religious and which could be described as'postsecular'. Presenting three symbolic case studies - the enduring image of the founder of the Republic Atatürk, the contested site of Ayasofia, and the remembering and commemoration of the murdered journalist Hrant Dink - The Making of a Postsecular Society analyses the cultural relationship that the modern Republic has always had with Europe, considering the possible implications of the Turkish model of secularism for a specifically European self-understanding of modernity. Based on a rigorous construction of theoretical categories and on a close scrutiny of the common challenges confronting Europe and its Turkish neighbour long considered'other'with regard to the accommodation of religious difference, this book sheds light on the possibilities for Europe to find new ways of arranging the relationship between the secular and the religious. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social theory, the sociology of religion, secularisation and religious difference, and social change. Hannah Arendt is today widely regarded today as a political theorist, who sought to rescue politics from society, and political theory from the social sciences. But this view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of society, and the significance of its 'science', sociology. Arendt Contra Sociology re-assesses the relationship between Arendt's work and the theoretical foundations of sociology, bringing her insights to bear on some key themes within contemporary theoretical sociology. Re-reading Arendt's distinctions between labour, fabrication and action as a theory of the fundamental ontology of human societies, this book assesses her criticism of the tendency of many sociological paradigms to conflate the activity of fabrication with that of action. It re-examines Arendt's understanding of central areas of research within contemporary theoretical sociology - including the meaning of power, the trajectory of modern science, the rise of consumerism and the problem of reflexivity. This volume offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Arendt's thought, uncovering its refutation of, or latent contribution to, key sociological approaches. It will be of interest to sociologists, social and political theorists and philosophers of social science. About the Author: Philip Walsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, Canada. Publisher's note This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of subjects, including postemotional law and responsibility, dehumanised consumption and prosumerism, fashion, embodiment, conspicuous consumption, and sustainability, this book analyzes the structural and cultural transformations that can be identified in consumer society. It also offers a critical - but not pessimistic - view of the important question of whether consumption is leading to an increasing isolation, individualization or commodification of human beings, suggesting an analytical framework for understanding consumer culture and human praxis. Bringing together work from across disciplines by scholars in the US, Europe, and the UK to engage with questions concerning our globalized and globalizing world, where consumerism is a keystone for understanding our contemporary culture and its social structures, Being Human in a Consumer Society will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory, and contemporary philosophy. Cover Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors and Contributors Archival Source Information Preface Acknowledgements 1 Series Editor’s Introduction PART I Riesman's Unpublished Works 2 The American Character in our Changing Society 3 National Character and Morale as Factors of National Power 4 American Values: Shifts in the Valuation of Commodities 5 The Berlin Crisis 6 The Impact of Freudian Thought in American Education: Some Observations 7 Freud: A Study in Ambivalence 8 A Suggestion for Coding the Intensive White Collar Interviews 9 Conversation on a Plane: Notes on This and That 10 The Structure of Party Conversation Part II Riesman’s Life, Work and Legacy 11 Toward the Lonely Crowd: A Report on an Interview with David Riesman 12 Reflections upon my Interview with David Riesman 13 David Riesman’s Mission 14 An Examination of Sociable Conversations and the Work of the Sociability Project 15 A Minority Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century 16 David Riesman and Higher Education Revisited: The State of the American University Then and Now 17 Strange Cultural Bedfellows: David Riesman, Erving Goffman, and Structures of Alienation Index Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's'phenomenology'and Foucault's'genealogy', contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities, most notably in the manner in which they dispense with distinctions between subject and object, theory and praxis, mind and body, and reason and nature, thus pointing the way to a form of social and political theorizing without presuppositions. Considering the possibility of developing a dialectical approach of'phenomenology'and'genealogy', this volume develops our understanding of critical theory, whilst engaging in debates concerning truth and knowledge in the philosophy of the social sciences. A rich exploration of the significance and implications of Hegel's'phenomenology'and Foucault's'genealogy'for the social sciences, it will be of interest to philosophers, as well as to social and political theorists. Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy', contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities. Based on a rigorous construction of theoretical categories and on a close scrutiny of the common challenges confronting Europe and its Turkish neighbour long considered 'other' with regard to the accommodation of religious difference. Pt. I. Blurring human beings : structural constrictions in consumer society -- pt. II. Consumer culture as mediation in human relationships -- pt. III. Framing the human being in a consumer society 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Hegel's Phenomenology -- 3. Foucault's Genealogy -- 4. Phenomenology and Genealogy compared -- 5. Hegel, Foucault and the philosophy of social sciences Edited By Keith Kerr, B. Garrick Harden, Marcus Aldredge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Pt. 1. A sociological theory of postsecular society -- pt. 2. The Turkish laboratory Pt. 1. Riesman's unpublished works -- pt. 2. Riesman's life, work and legacy