George E. McCarthy
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George E. McCarthy is a professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
[edit] Education
- M.A., Ph.D. Boston College
- M.A., Ph.D. New School for Social Research
- B.A. Manhattan College
[edit] Career
George E. McCarthy became National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology in 2000. He has been a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt am Main, a guest professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich, and a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in philosophy and sociology at the University of Kassel, Germany. McCarthy's courses at Kenyon College focus on ethics and social justice, political and social theory, philosophy and sociology of science, German social thought and Greek philosophy/literature, and American political economy. His major area of concentration is nineteenth- and twentieth-century German social theory: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Heidegger, Gadamer, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Habermas.
[edit] Recent Publications
- Marx's Critique of Science and Positivism (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988)
- Marx and the Ancients (Rowman and Littlefield, 1990)
- Eclipse of Justice (with Royal Rhodes, Orbis Books, 1992)
- Marx and Aristotle, editor (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992)
- Dialectics and Decadence: Echoes of Antiquity in Marx and Nietzsche (Rowan and Littlefield, 1994)
- Romancing Antiquity: Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas (Rowan and Littlefield, 1997)
- Objectivity and the Silence of Reason: Weber, Habermas, and the Methodological Disputes in German Sociology (Transaction Publishers, 2001)
- Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece (State University of New York Press, 2003)
- Justice Beyond Liberalism (with Royal Rhodes, Humanities Press, forthcoming 2006)
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