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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Civil Sphere and Its Limits: Assessing Jeffrey Alexander’s Framework for Democratic Culture
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander’s civil sphere theory is an ambitious attempt to explain how democratic societies generate solidarity, experience crisis, and attempt repair. It captures something real that most competing frameworks miss. It also has clear limits that deserve direct statement … Continue reading
Robert Alter: The Authority of Attention
Robert Alter was born on April 2, 1935, in the Bronx, the child of Jewish immigrants’ descendants. He grew up in a secular but culturally Jewish household in New York, began serious Hebrew study after his bar mitzvah, and deepened … Continue reading
Jeffrey C. Alexander – The Last Grand Theorist
Jeffrey Charles Alexander was born on May 30, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969 with a degree in Social Studies, an interdisciplinary program … Continue reading
Biographies
Aaron M. Renn – The Consultant and the Cathedral Aaron W. Hughes – Cold Eyes on Sacred Ground Adam Davidson and the Narrative Reconstruction of Economic Journalism Adam Tooze Adrian Vermeule Alan Gewirth Alana Newhouse – Editor, Founder, Entrepreneur Allan … Continue reading
Cold Eyes on Sacred Ground – The Aaron W. Hughes Story
Aaron W. Hughes was born on August 15, 1968, in Edmonton, Alberta, to a Scottish-Canadian father from Glasgow and a mother whose Lebanese parents had settled in Canada’s Northwest Territories. That mixed heritage, European and Arab, gave him an early … Continue reading
Randall Schweller & The Anarchy Within
Randall Schweller was born in 1958 and earned his undergraduate degree in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984. He then moved to Columbia University for graduate training, completing his M.A. in 1990, … Continue reading
Stephen Greenblatt & The Touch of the Real
Stephen Greenblatt was born on November 7, 1943, in Newton, Massachusetts, into a Jewish family with Litvak roots. His grandparents had emigrated from Lithuania in the 1890s to escape Czarist conscription. He grew up secular, but that heritage of displacement … Continue reading
After Suspicion – The Rita Felski Story
Rita Felski was born in 1956 and grew up in England in a lower-middle-class household with no strong national attachments. She has described feeling at home nowhere in particular, a sensibility that turns out to be structurally important for understanding … Continue reading
The Coroner of Social Theory: Stephen P. Turner and the Limits of Procedural Lucidity
Stephen Park Turner has spent five decades doing something that most social theorists resist: applying the sociology of knowledge to the sociology of knowledge itself. Where others build systems, reconstruct traditions, or recover moral depth, Turner dismantles the mechanisms by … Continue reading
Randall Collins – Situations All the Way Down
Randall Collins was born on July 29, 1941, into a family tied to American diplomatic and military service. His earliest memories include crossing the Atlantic on a troop ship in 1946 to join his father in postwar Germany. Later postings … Continue reading