Lost & Forgotten: An Index of the Famous Works Which Sociology Has Left Behind

Charisma and social phenomenology: Gerda Walther, Herman Schmalenbach and Aron Gurwitsch

“…McGail (2021) recently offered a variety of reasons for inquiring into the discipline’s past. He writes that ‘it seems inherently intriguing to dig up what the citation system.…”

“…. has forgotten, neglected, or repressed’ (McGail, 2021: 2). To know the work of scholars who failed to secure prominence helps sociologists to understand better those who did – ‘if we want to explain why some sociological classics survived, we may have to investigate some murders’ (McGail, 2021: 3).…”

“…has forgotten, neglected, or repressed’ (McGail, 2021: 2). To know the work of scholars who failed to secure prominence helps sociologists to understand better those who did – ‘if we want to explain why some sociological classics survived, we may have to investigate some murders’ (McGail, 2021: 3). Moreover, ‘the forgotten could present an instructive site for an inductive qualitative investigation into the sociology of sociology’ as well as other disciplines (McGail, 2021: 3).…”

“…To know the work of scholars who failed to secure prominence helps sociologists to understand better those who did – ‘if we want to explain why some sociological classics survived, we may have to investigate some murders’ (McGail, 2021: 3). Moreover, ‘the forgotten could present an instructive site for an inductive qualitative investigation into the sociology of sociology’ as well as other disciplines (McGail, 2021: 3). I agree with Huebner (2013) that recovering obliterated parts of tradition helps us ‘to locate the analysis of concepts not in “abstract consciousness” but in the active responses of social thinkers one to another’ (Huebner, 2013: 431).…”