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With and beyond Max Weber: The process of rationalisation

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
At the basis of the lasting, even growing, fascination of Max Weber as man and thinker there are probably two reasons. First, there is an essential reason: Weber tackles a central theme, still today at the heart of our concerns, and to which he returns in all his works, more or less directly - the n…
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Technical Change and Social Revolution

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…
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Max Horkheimer: The struggle against total Bureaucratization

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
In July 1973, at the age of 78, Max Horkheimer passed away In the Swiss town of Montagnola. If not the founder, he has at least the most important director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, from which the famous name “Frankfurt School” is derived. Actually, if we ca…
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Culture and Counter-culture

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
A curious paradox must be faced at the very outset: nothing is perhaps more culturally inclined than the various counter-culture movements. In other words, writing and working against the prevailing culture amount to an essentially cultural enterprise. Culture seems to be inescapable. A supposedly d…
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The case of Italy: Between tradition and Modernity

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
If it were possible, just for an instant, to forget the sufferings and worries of the everyday, if, in other words, it were possible to distance ourselves and somehow see ourselves from outside, I think we should have to agree with Goethe’s confession: «I have the great advantage of being born in an…
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Intellectuals and society

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
If one conceives of modern society as a society that strives to free itself from the hand of tradition and conventional wisdom, then it seems difficult to overestimate the role of the intellectuals. Undoubtedly, the concept of the intellectual. It’s an am…
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Pragmatic Objectivity

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of objectivity …
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Social praxis, party, and class relations today

Egni Malo · Metropolitan University, London, UK
Today’s political sociologists are once again interested in the study of the crisis of mass-based parties, anti-politics and anti-parliamentarism, crisis in the authority of the political class, prevailing corporate interests within republican institutions, and populism. Political sociology however,…

Vëzhgime gjuhësore në veprën e Petro Markos Retë dhe gurët (Intervistë me vetveten)

Valter Memisha
Për Petro Markon është shkruar dhe do të shkruhet përsëri. Mbi veprën e tij janë bërë studime e të tjera do të bëhen, të pjesshme a tërësore qofshin ato. Dhe për të gjithmonë do të ketë diçka të re për të thënë apo diçka të thënë ndryshe. Ky proces nuk do të ketë kufij hapësinorë apo kohorë. Dhe kjo…