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Department of Sociology
Treleaven House
Kenyon College
Room 202
Gambier, Ohio 43022
USA
Telephone: Office: (740) 427-5849 Home: (740) 427-2999
Department Office Manager: (740) 427-5855 (morning)
(740) 427-5809 (afternoon)
Email: McCarthy@Kenyon.edu
Fax: (740) 427-5815
PROF. GEORGE E. MCCARTHY
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR
OF SOCIOLOGY
BIOGRAPHY
Professor George E. McCarthy teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy, classical and contemporary social theory, ethics and social justice, philosophy
and sociology of science, and political economy at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy
from Boston College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Faculty,
New School for Social Research. He has been a DAAD Research Fellow (Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (University of Frankfurt) and the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main. He has also been a guest research professor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politische Wissenschaft at the University of Munich, the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle in Mönchengladbach, and the department of Philosophie
und Erziehungswissenschaft-Humanwissenschaften at the Gesamthochschule, University of Kassel, Germany. In 1994-95, he was a Senior
Fulbright Research Fellow in Germany. In the spring of 2000 he received
the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship
in Sociology at Kenyon College. More recently, he has been the recipient of a twelve-month National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2006-2007) for his project, "Aristotle and Kant in Classical Social Theory," which examined the relationship between nineteenth-century European social theory and Greek and German philosophy. His main educational goals are: (1) to investigate the philosophical foundations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European social theory with a special focus on the Ancients and the Moderns; (2) to help rediscover the nature of sociology as an historical and practical or ethical science; and (3) to reintegrate Philosophy, History, and Political Economy back into a Critical Social Theory.
EDUCATION
1969-1972
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
M.A. in Philosophy, August 1969
Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 1972
Dissertation: The Social Anthropology of Hegel and Marx
1971-1979
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
The New School for Social Research
(The New School)
New York, New York 10003
M.A. in Sociology, June 1973
Ph.D. in Sociology, June 1979
Dissertation: Systems Theory and the Engineering of Utopia:
Urban Technology and Planning in the Post-Industrial City
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Marx's Critique of Science and Positivism: Marx and the Ancients: Marx and the Ancients Eclipse of Justice: Eclipse of Justice: Marx and Aristotle: Dialectics and Decadence: Romancing Antiquity: Objectivity and the Silence of Reason: Classical Horizons: Dreams in Exile: Justice Beyond Heaven: Antiquity and Social Theory: Shadows of the Enlightenment:
The Methodological Foundations of Political Economy
(Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publications,
1988).
Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy
(Savage, Maryland; London, England: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1990).
Chinese translation
Ma-ke-si yu Gu Ren:
Gudian Lunli, Shehui Zhengyi, yu 19 Shiji de Zhengzhi Jingzi xue,
trans. by Wennan Wang,
part of the series “Marx and the Western Tradition,” ed. by Liu Forest
(Shanghai, China: East China Normal University Press, 2011).
Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism,
with Royal Rhodes (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books,
1992).
Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism
with Royal Rhodes (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009),
new paperback edition.
Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity,
edited collection of essays (Savage, Maryland; London,
England: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1992).
Echoes of Antiquity in Marx and Nietzsche
(Lanham, Maryland; London, England: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1994).
German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas
(Lanham, Maryland; Oxford, England: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1997).
Weber, Habermas, and the Methodological Disputes in German Sociology
(New Brunswick, New Jersey; London, England: Transaction
Publishers, 2001).
The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press,
2003).
Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2009).
Natural Law and Economic Democracy in U.S., German, and Irish Catholic Social
Thought
with Royal Rhodes (Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, forthcoming 2012).
The Greek Influence on Marx, Weber, and Durkheim,
edited collection of essays (work in progress).
Toward a Critical Theory of Ecology and Social Justice
(work in progress).
| Socy 102 | Social Dreamers: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (Introductory Sociology Course) |
| Socy 222 | State and Political Economy: Profits and Poverty in the Welfare State |
| Socy 234 | Communitarianism and Social Democracy |
| Socy 242 | Science and Society: Crisis of the Enlightenment and the Environment |
| Socy 243 | Social Justice: The Ancient and Modern Traditions |
| Socy 248 | Modernity and the Ancients |
| Socy 324 | Natural Law and Natural Rights Theory |
| Socy 360 | Kant, Hegel, and Modern Social Theory |
| Socy 361 | Classical Social Theory: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim |
| Socy 362 | Contemporary Social Theory |
| Socy 461 | German Social Theory: From Freud to Habermas |
| Socy 474 | Western Marxism: Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School |
| National Endowment for the Humanities Project | Democracy and Social Justice: Ancient and Modern |
