Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1 The Dialogical Turn Part 2 I Sociology and the Dialogue across Academic Disciplines Chapter 3 2 A Regime of Disciplines: Toward a Historical Sociology of Disciplinary Knowledge Chapter 4 3 Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice Chapter 5 4 The Liberal Arts as a Dialogic Project Part 6 II Sociology and the Broader Intellectual Dialogue Chapter 7 5 Max Weber and Emile Durkheim in Dialogue: Classical Views on Contemporary Problems Chapter 8 6 Die Gesellschaft—An Early Transdisciplinary Project Chapter 9 7 Academic Intellectuals Part 10 III Sociological Reconstructions of Disciplinary Fields Chapter 11 8 The Maturity of Social Theory Chapter 12 9 Embracing Bodies: Sociology and the Sociology of Sex and Gender Chapter 13 10 Where Sociability Comes From: Neurosociological Foundations of Social Interaction Part 14 IV Dialogical Reconceptualizations within Sociology Chapter 15 11 Is There a Future for Sociology in the Bioglobal Age? Chapter 16 12 Rationalization, the Constitution of Meaning, and Institutional Development Chapter 17 13 Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Civilizational Dimensions of Modernity Part 18 Appendix Part 19 Index Part 20 About the Contributors

About the Author

Charles Camic is the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hans Joas is director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany, and professor of sociology and social thought at the University of Chicago.