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- Title
Subjectivity and Insight: The Right Word.
- Authors
Bakan, Mildred
- Abstract
This article presents information on the book "Transformation in the Writing: A Case of Surrender-and-Catch," by Kurt H. Wolff. The title of the book suggests that the articulated catch of surrender-and-catch, as transforming the self, is intrinsically, if not fundamentally, ethical in a sense that does not, however, lose the epistemological search for truth as the articulated catch-of-surrender. "Transformation in the Writing," is divided into three sections. The first is concerned with the writing of autobiography. It describes the transformation of Wolff's identity as an emigre during his early years in the U.S. The second, and most comprehensive, section emphasizes the testing and relevance of surrender-and-catch as epistemology and sociology. Further, in the third section, Wolff calls for a sociology of sociology and a sociology of philosophy. In "Transformation in the Writing," Wolff also refers to the articulation of the catch as rendering what is articulated present, though Wolff is well aware that the catch is always open to revision. Perhaps Wolff is confusing the presence of the subjectivity of the other, which can never be wholly exhausted, with what is wholly present as essence.
- Subjects
TRANSFORMATION in the Writing: A Case of Surrender-And-Catch (Book); WOLFF, Kurt H.; THEORY of knowledge; SOCIOLOGY; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1998, Vol 21, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1023/A:1023494813708