TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Mele, Vincenzo T1 - The corrosion of character BT - Work and personality in the modern age JF - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - The topic of this imaginary dialogue between Georg Simmel and Max Weber is the relation between work – in the sense of labour – and personality. Its aim is to show that the thinking of these ‘founding fathers’ of sociology can furnish valuable insight into the current issue of the corrosion of character in contemporary post-Fordist society. The concept of work still represents one of the major factors determining modern individuals’ ability (or inability) to formulate personal, stable identities that enable them to become fully socialized. Both Simmel and Weber make reference to a common theoretical background that views the human being as a creature with originally rational potential, who is faced with the task of becoming a personality by means of consciously chosen life behaviour: This is evident in the parallelism between Simmel’s interest in the concept of ‘style of life’ (Der Stil des Lebens) and Weber’s research on the ‘life conduct’ (Lebensführung) that arose in Western rationalistic culture. KW - Character KW - conduct of life KW - flexibility KW - identity KW - lifestyle KW - personality KW - Simmel KW - Weber KW - work Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17693436 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 143 EP - 155 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Marcucci, Nicola T1 - Durkheim in Germany BT - the performance of a classic JF - Journal of Classical Sociology Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735991 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 271 EP - 275 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Marcucci, Nicola A1 - Müller, Hans-Peter T1 - Interview by Gregor Fitzi and Nicola Marcucci with Hans-Peter Müller on the reception of Emile Durkheim in Germany. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, 25 February 2015 T2 - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - Just after the publication of the Theory of Communicative Action in 1981, a new generation of interpreters started a different reception of Durkheim in Germany. Hans-Peter Müller, sociologist and editor of the German translation of Leçons de sociologie, reconstructs the history of the German Durkheim’s Reception and illuminates the reasons for his interest in the French sociologist. He delivers different insights into the background which permitted the post-Habermasian generation to reach a new understanding of Durkheim’s work by enlightening the scientific and political conditions from which this new sensibility emerged. KW - Durkheim’s German Reception, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Jürgen Habermas Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17736132 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 399 EP - 422 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Joas, Hans A1 - Marcucci, Nicola T1 - Interview by Gregor Fitzi and Nicola Marcucci with Hans Joas on the reception of Emile Durkheim in Germany. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, 6 October 2014 T2 - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - The interview offers a reconstruction of the German reception of Durkheim since the middle of the 1970s. Hans Joas, who was one of its major protagonists, discusses the backdrop that finally permitted a scholarly examination of Durkheim’s sociology in Germany. Focussing on his personal reception Joas then gives an account of the Durkheimian themes that inspire his work. KW - Durkheim KW - human rights KW - modernity Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17736131 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 382 EP - 398 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor T1 - Dialogue. Divergence. Veiled Reception. Criticism: Georg Simmel’s relationship with Emile Durkheim JF - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - Simmel was the only German sociologist who directly cooperated with Durkheim. After an initial impression of convergence between the sociology of social facts and the sociology of social forms, a break between the two founders of sociology became inevitable. Yet, Durkheim and Simmel went on positioning themselves against one other in the years ahead. Durkheim’s allegation of ‘individual psychologism’ induced Simmel to a veiled reception of Durkheim’s methodological approach that permitted him to refine the sociological epistemology he eventually presented in the Soziologie published in 1908. On this basis, he was able to formulate a final criticism of the sociology of social facts as a social psychology. KW - Sociology of social facts KW - sociology of social forms KW - moral sociology KW - transnormative sociology KW - criticism of social psychology Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735994 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 SP - 293 EP - 308 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER -