Autore
Crouch, Colin

Titolo
L'irrequietezza come scelta
Periodico
Società mutamento politica (Online)
Anno: 2019 - Volume: 10 - Fascicolo: 19 - Pagina iniziale: 11 - Pagina finale: 21

The essay traces the complex path of a high-profile intellectual who has profoundly innovated European sociological thought. Ralf Dahrendorf’s “restlessness” is the basis of a continuous transition between different and distant countries and universities and of his wise oscillation between study and politics, between scientific analysis and diagnosis of contemporaneity. A careful biographical reconstruction is followed by a critical presentation of his extraordinary contribution on four interdependent intellectual and normative themes: the rejection of utopia and homo sociologicus, the passionate acceptance and reflection on conflict, the exploration of entitlements and provisions, options and ligatures. A significant portrait emerges that underlines the tension between his social theory, or rather, a conception of sociology that constantly avoids formal abstraction because it considers the person in his full humanity and his orientations as a liberal democrat at the centre of his interest. His firm neo-liberal conviction, however, has never stifled his social-democratic instincts of family origin. The moral action that guided Dahrendorf in his public life as a European scientist and politician never made him ein großer Ordinarius but always ein großer Mensch.



SICI: 2038-3150(2019)10:19<11:LCS>2.0.ZU;2-K
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