The norms of answerability social theory between Bakhtin and Habermas - Nielsen, Greg Marc 1953- (Albany State University of New York Press, 2002)
Introduction: Theory on the Borders of Sociology -- Syncrisis and Anacrisis: The State of Bakhtin Studies -- Creativity and General Sociological Theory -- The Bridge between Culture and the Political -- Diversity and Transcultural Ethics -- Disciplinary Orientations -- Decentered Subjects and Critiques of Discourse Ethics -- The Creative Side of the Normative -- The Normative Side of Creativity -- Between the Creativity and Normativity of the Act -- Communicative Action or Dialogue? -- Communicative Action and Moral Development -- The Limits of Universal Reason -- Dialogism: Mixing the Word and Style -- The World of Other's Words -- Bakhtin and Voloshinov on the Subject of the Utterance -- Social and Ethical Worlds of Dialogue in Dostoevsky -- The Frankfurt Tradition -- Habermas's Break -- Genres of Discourse in Literature and in Theory -- From Dostoevsky to Calvino -- Convergence and Difference -- On the Sources of Young Bakhtin's Ethics (Kant, Vvedenskij, Simmel, Cohen) -- Kant's Three Postulates -- Vvedenskij's Fourth Postulate -- Simmel's Shadow -- Bakhtin and the Formal Ought -- Cohen's "Discovery of Man as Fellowman" -- Influences and Steps -- Action and Eros (Kant-Weber-Bakhtin) -- Kant: Duties Toward the Body Concerning the Sexual Impulse -- Weber: Action, Ethics, and Eros -- Bakhtin: The Fourth Postulate and Body-Dialogue -- Eros and Action Today -- Reflexive Subjectivity (Mead-Bakhtin) -- Philosophical and Disciplinary Orientations -- Between Consciousness and Language: The Ambiguity of Experience.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
Keywords: Social norms; Sociology -- History; Normes sociales; Sociologie - Histoire