Author	Wolff, Kurt H., 1912-, author
Title	Transformation in the Writing [electronic resource] : A Case of Surrender-and-Catch / by Kurt H. Wolff
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8412-8
Descript	XXIV, 224 p. online resource

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogniยญ tive forms. He published Trying Sociology in 1974, which contains his writings on sociology, and Surrender and Catch: Experience and Inquiry Today in 1976, which contains his writings on surrender-and-catch. In more recent years, he has published two books, 0 Loma! Constituting a Self (1977-1984) in 1989 and Survival and Sociology: Vindicating the Human Subject (1991). Both of the more recent books add a third vein which is autobiographical and which moves back and forth between the previously established approaches in the earlier works. Transformation in the Writing is the most ambitious to date, because, as Wolff points out in the beginning, it contains writings that "fall quite obviously into three classes: autobiographical; sociology of knowledge, sociology, poetry, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory; and our time and its sociological analysis. " The task of this book is to illuminate the connections among these three classes. Wolff has engaged in autobiographical writing his entire life, though this approach to writing has only in recent years grown closer to his intelยญ lectual preoccupations with sociology and philosophy

One. Autobiographical -- Ch. I. โThe Personal History of an รmigrรฉโ -- Ch. II. First Notes on Surrender and Autobiography -- Ch. III. โAuthenticity in Loma and of โLomaโ โ -- Ch. IV. โTrying Sociology,โ Sociology of Knowledge, Surrender-and-Catch -- Two. Surrender-and-Catch and Other Approaches to the World -- Ch. V. The Sociology of Knowledge and Surrender-and-Catch -- Ch. VI. Surrender-and-Catch and Sociology -- Ch. VII. Surrender-and-Catch, Poetry, Sociology, Morality -- Ch. VIII. Surrender-and-Catch and Phenomenology -- Ch. IX. Surrender-and-Catch and Hermeneutics -- Ch. X. Surrender-and-Catch and Critical Theory -- Three. Our Time and Its Sociological Analysis -- Ch. XI. From Nothing to Sociology -- Ch. XII. โNineteen-Eighty-Fourโ and Surrender-and-Catch -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

1. Philosophy
2. History
3. Philosophy and social sciences
4. Phenomenology
5. Philosophy
6. Phenomenology
7. History
8. general
9. Philosophy of the Social Sciences