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Department of Sociology
Kenyon College
Treleaven House
105 Ward Street
Room 202
Gambier, Ohio 43022
USA
Telephone:
Office: (740) 427-5849
Department Office Manager:
(740) 427-5855 (morning)
(740) 427-5809 (afternoon)
Email:
McCarthy@Kenyon.edu
Fax:
(740) 427-
Website Address:
http://personal.kenyon.edu/mccarthy/
BIOGRAPHY
PROF. GEORGE E. MCCARTHY
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR
OF SOCIOLOGY
Professor George E. McCarthy is an American philosopher and sociologist who 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 a B.A. in philosophy from Manhattan College (1968), an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy
from Boston College (1972), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Faculty,
New School for Social Research (1979).
McCarthy 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 1994-1995, 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 integration of the Ancients (ancient Hebrews, Hellenes, and Hellenists) and the Moderns (German Romantics, Idealists, Historians, and Critical Materialists); (2) to help rediscover the nature of sociology as an empirical/historical and practical/ethical science; (3) to reintegrate Philosophy, History, and Political Economy back into a Critical Social Theory; (4) to expand the nature of 'social science' beyond traditional quantitative and qualitative methods to include the full range of critical social science, including interpretive and hermeneutical science (verstehende Soziologie), cultural science (Kulturwissenschaft), historical science (Geschichtswissenschaft or sociology of social institutions and structures), historical materialism (political economy), dialectical or critical science (immanent critic of the values, logic, and dialectic of capital), and depth hermeneutics (neo-Freudian analysis), while rejecting the methodology of the natural sciences: positivism, empiricism, naturalism, and nominalism; and (5) to develop social theory into the foundations of a comprehensive, ethical, and critical theory of Social Justice (Geisteswissenschaft).
More specifically, his goal is to draw the connections between Ancient philosophy and the Greek polis and Modern social theory and political economy in order to reconfigure Aristotle's major works Nicomachean Ethics (Philosophy: happiness and the good life of moral and intellectual virtue from courage, moderation, and wisdom to friendship and citizenship) and The Politics (Sociology: institutions and structures of political economy, moral economy, and political democracy) for the modern age. This rewrite will take the form of joining together Ethics, Social Theory, and Social Justice. The main academic goal behind these five points is to fuse the intellectual horizons (Horizontverschmelzung) of Philosophy and Sociology, Ethics and Social Theory, Virtue & Natural Law and Political & Economic Democracy, and Social Justice and Social Science, thereby creating a critical and dialectical discipline or Science with Heart (Herz: ethics, virtue, and moral/social principles) and Spirit (Geist: politics, reason, social institutions, and empirical/historical research). The future of a democratic, egalitarian, and just society within a moral economy is open to those who can dream with critical insight and practical vision while also looking back to the Ancients for inspiration, compassion, and hope (Griechensehnsucht).
EDUCATION
1968-1972
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
Summer 1972
U. S. Department of Justice
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
Foley Square, Manhattan, NY 10007
Indictment, Arrest Warrant, and Federal Trial
for Resistance to Vietnam War and Draft Evasion
Felony Indictment: Failure to Report for Armed Services Induction
Summer 1973
Goethe Institute in Language Study
Blaubeuren, Baden-Württemberg, near Ulm
(2 months)
Brannenburg-Degerndorf, Bavaria, near Munich
(2 months)
West Germany
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) Language Fellowship
1973-1975
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
Universität Frankfurt am Main
Institut für Sozialforschung
(The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory)
Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Research Fellowship (DAAD)
in Philosophy and Sociology
1971-1979
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
The New School for Social Research
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York 10011
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' Critique of Science and Positivism: Marx and the Ancients: Marx and the Ancients Eclipse of Justice:
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
Makesi yu gu ren:
gu dian lun li xue, she hui zheng yi he 19 shi ji zheng zhi jing ji xue
translated by Wennan Wang
“Marx and the Western Tradition Series”
edited by Liu Forest
(Shanghai, China: East China Normal University Press, 2011)
Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism
with Royal W. Rhodes
(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1992)
Eclipse of Justice:
Ethics, Economics, and the Lost Traditions of American Catholicism
Marx and Aristotle:
Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity
Dialectics and Decadence:
Echoes of Antiquity in Marx and Nietzsche
(Lanham, Maryland; London, England: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1994)
Romancing Antiquity:
German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas
(Lanham, Maryland; Oxford, England: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1997)
Objectivity and the Silence of Reason:
Weber, Habermas, and the Methodological Disputes in German Sociology
(New Brunswick, New Jersey; London, England: Transaction
Publishers, 2001)
Classical Horizons:
The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece
“Choice Outstanding Academic Title” Award, January 2004
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press,
2003)
Classical Horizons:
The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
(Princeton, NJ: Audiobook on CD, 2003)
Classical Horizons:
The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece
Japanese translation
Kodai girishia to shakaigaku:
marukusu veba dyurukemu
(Japanese title)
Ancient Greece and Sociology:
Marx, Weber, and Durkheim
translated by Tatsuo Higuchi & Daisuke Tagami
(Tokyo, Japan: Shogakusya Publishers, 2017)
Dreams in Exile: Marx and Social Justice:
Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2009)
Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy
"The Historical Materialism Book Series 147"
(Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, Massachusetts:
Brill Publishers, hardcover)
2018
(Chicago, Illinois:
Haymarket Books, reprint edition paperback)
2019
Nature and the Shadows of the Enlightenment:
The Politics of Science, Technology, and the Environment
(work in progress)
Justice Beyond Heaven:
Natural Law and Economic Democracy in U.S., German, and Irish Catholic Social Thought
co-authored with Royal W. Rhodes
(Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, forthcoming)
Classical Antiquity and Social Theory:
The Greek Inspiration for Marx, Weber, and Durkheim
edited collection of essays
(future project)
Existentialism and Classical Social Theory:
The Foundations of Sociology in the Crisis of Meaning
(future project)
WIKIPEDIA, DIGITAL KENYON GALLERY,
AND
THE ONLINE COMPUTER LIBRARY CENTER (OCLC)
WORLDCAT IDENTITIES:
BOOKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._McCarthy
https://works.bepress.com/george_mccarthy/
and
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87917357/
| 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 (Environmental Studies Program) |
| 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 |
