Witkin III

Authors

  • Robert Witkin

Keywords:

sociology, aesthetics

Abstract

Response to Jeffrey Alexander's commentary on The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts

Author Biography

Robert Witkin

Robert Witkin is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter, and Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. He is an Associate Editor of Sociological Theory. His main areas of research include sociology of the arts, art, agency and social formation, the arts in education, and the aesthetic dimension of organisational cultures. His publications include The Intelligence of Feeling (1974), Art and Social Structure (1995), Adorno on Music (1998), and Adorno and Popular Culture (2002). He is currently completing an historically grounded study on art, agency, and modernity, (to be published by SAGE, TCS Book Series).

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2009)

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