Harry F. Dahms
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Current Research
Theory, economic sociology, political economy, and comparative sociology are my areas of interest. With "globalization" as a contingent, complex, and contradictory process being the primary reference point in my work, the guiding question is how classical, contemporary and critical (neo-Marxist, postmodernist, feminist) theorists should have prepared sociologists, during the twentieth century, to anticipate globalization as the culmination of the trends that have shaped modern societies. The defining challenge of our time, then, is to envision how all contributions to social, sociological, and critical theory tell parts of the story of the modern age.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications (since 2000)
BOOKS
Nature, Knowledge, and Negation, (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) 26; Emerald (UK), (Dezember 2009) (editor) .
No Social Science Without Critical Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) 25; Emerald (UK), (June 2008) (editor) .
Globalization Between the Cold War and Neo-Imperialism (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) 24 2006 (editor).
Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society and the State in Modern Times, ed. (Palgrave and New York University Press, 2000).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Democracy" (Democracy, Globalization, and Security. The Trilateral Commission and Beyond), Globalization and Security. An Encyclopedia, Vol. I, ed. Honor Fagan and Ronaldo Munck (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009).
“Modernity" (Modernity as Paradox. Reconciling Globalization and Human Security), Globalization and Security. An Encyclopedia, ed. Honor Fagan and Ronaldo Munck (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009).
"How Social Science is Impossible Without Critical Theory: The Immersion of Mainstream Approaches in Time and Space,” No Social Science Without Critical Theory, vol. 25 of Current Perspectives in Social Theory (Emerald, 2008): 3-61.
"Retheorizing Global Space in Sociology: Towards a New Kind of Discipline," The Spatial Turn. Interdisciplinary Perspectives , ed. Barney Warf and Santa Arias (London: Routledge, 2008): 88-102.
“Confronting the Dynamic Nature of Modern Social Life,” Soundings. An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 90. 3-4, Fall-Winter 2007: 191-205.
"Capitalism Unbound? Promise and Peril of Basic Income." Basic Income Studies 1 (1) 2006.
“THE MATRIX Trilogy as Critical Theory of Alienation: Communicating a Message of Radical Transformation,” Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence 3 (1) 2005: 108-24.
"Globalization or Hyper-Alienation? Critiques of Traditional Marxism as Arguments for Basic Income." Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) 23 2005: 205-76.
"Does Alienation Have a Future? Recapturing the Core of Critical Theory." in The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium, ed. L. Langman and D.K. Fishman (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005): 23-46.
"Sociology in the Age of Globalization: Toward a Dynamic Sociological Theory, Bringing Capitalism Back for Critique by Social Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) 21 2002: 287-320.
"The Early Frankfurt School Critique of Capitalism: Critical Theory Between Pollock's 'State Capitalism' and the Critique of Instrumental Reason." The Theory of Capitalism in the German Economic Tradition. ed. P. Koslowski (Berlin: Springer, 2000), pp. 309-61 (disc.: pp. 362-67).
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
"Alienation," Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. by Vince Parrillo (Sage Reference; in preparation).
“Historical Materialism” -- “Ideology” -- “Modernity,” in: International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, ed. by Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski (Routledge, 2005).
“Joseph A. Schumpeter”--“Lester F. Ward”, in: Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers , ed. by John R. Shook (Thoemmes Press, 2005)
IN PREPARATION
American Critical Theory. A Reader (editor, with Steven P. Dandaneau and Allen R. Dunn)
A Dynamic Theory of Modern Capitalism. Schumpeter's Economic Sociology of Entrepreneurship (in preparation)
Contact Information
Harry F. Dahms
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Head
Editor, Current Perspectives in Social Theory (Call for Papers -- see below)
Affiliated Faculty, University of Innsbruck, Austria
1993, Ph.D., New School for Social Research
The University of Tennessee
913 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0490
Phone: 865-974-7028
E-Mail: hdahms@utk.edu