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| Nuova rivista Sociologica Work in progress Utile sineddoche. La "religione civile" e l'autocomprensione dell'Europa, draft. The "Bellah Affair" at Princeton. Scholarly Reputation, Disciplinary Differentiation, and Controlled Oblivion, draft. Nothing Fails Like Success. Robert N. Bellah and the Civil Religion Debate, long and short versions. “Parsonianism,” General Frameworks, Evolution. An Exercise in Reflexivity, draft. Hannah Arendt, Council Democracy and (Far) Beyond. A Radical View, draft. The Parsonians An Inquiry into Intellectual Followership, Group Dynamics and Individual Passion Research project by Matteo Bortolini Department of Sociology, University of Padua, Italy In America, of course, the relationship of
sociological theory to Parsons has been burdened with much more historical and psychological freight. It was there that Parsons once exercised his much-disputed domination. If sociology were to be free to develop, this domination had to be overthrown. Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1981 What does it mean to be a well-known student of an exceedingly pivotal, disputed, loved and hated intellectual figure? What does it mean to carry on and try to develop the heritage of a master of sociology obsessed with filling each and every theoretical and empirical space, ready to extend his intelligence and insight to fields and objects of inquiry as diverse as sociological theory, systems theory, the family, economics, political theory, socialization, the academic system, international relations, psychoanalysis, the history of sociological, economical and philosophical thought, religion, social stratification, racism, American, European and Japanese society, ethnicity, immigration, antisemitism, social evolution, all the way to "the human condition"? What does it mean to find oneself into a professional world that has become abruptly a very hostile, and even dangerous, environment? These, it seems, were the two most important intellectual challenges that the first and the second generation of sociologists who studied with Talcott Parsons had to face during and after they mentor's demise as the most important inspirational figure in American sociology. Gifted sociologists and intellectuals of the like of Robert K. Merton, Robert N. Bellah, Clifford Geertz, Garfinkel, Neil J. Smelser, had either studied or collaborated with Parsons during the apex of his intellectual career and charismatic influence. |