Calhoun’s critical sociology relies not only on engagements with Habermas, Bourdieu and Taylor, but also on the middle range empirical traditions of American sociology. Through a review of his recent work on cosmopolitanism and globalization, community and solidarity, and public spaces and sociology, I propose that his search to explain different ways in which solidarity is developed offers a robust sociological foundation for the development of the most appropriate intellectual formation, and institutional sequel, to the emancipatory project that undergirds critical theory’s hope and commitment. At the same time, we all need to rethink how both critical theory and more empirical sociologies can help us recognize the issues and agencies most vital for the address of contemporary cultural, social and biophysical needs.
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Calhoun, C. (1980b) ‘The Authority of Ancestors: A Sociological Reconsideration of Fortes’s Tallensi in Response to Fortes’s Critics’ , Man, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute15(2) n.s.: 304-319 .
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Calhoun, C. (1982) The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Oxford: Basil Blackwell .
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Calhoun, C. (1983a) ‘The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?’ , American Journal of Sociology88(5): 886-914 .
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Calhoun, C. (1983b) ‘Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers’ Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis’ , Theory and Society12(4): 485-504 .
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Calhoun, C. (1989a) ‘Tiananmen, Television and the Public Sphere: Internationalization of Culture and the Beijing Spring of 1989’ , Public Culture2(1): 54-70 .
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Calhoun, C. (1989b) ‘Classical Social Theory and the French Revolution of 1848’ , Sociological Theory7(2): 210-225 .
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Calhoun, C. (1991) ‘Morality, Identity, and Historical Explanation: Charles Taylor on the Sources of the Self’ , Sociological Theory9(2): 232-263 .
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Calhoun, C. (ed.) (1992) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
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Calhoun, C. (1993) ‘Nationalism and Civil Society: Democracy, Diversity and Self-Determination’ , International Sociology8(4): 387-411 .
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Calhoun, C. (1994) Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. Berkeley: University of California Press .
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Calhoun, C. (1995) Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Challenge of Difference. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell .
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Calhoun, C. (1997a) ‘Plurality, Promises, and Public Spaces’, in C. Calhoun and J. McGowan (eds) Hannah Arendt and The Meaning of Politics, pp. 232-259. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
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Calhoun, C. (1997b) Nationalism. Buckingham: Open University Press / Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
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Calhoun, C. (1998) ‘Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically Specific Theory’ , American Journal of Sociology104(3): 846-871 .
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Calhoun, C. (1999) ‘Introduction’ , Sociological Theory17(3): 237-239 .
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Calhoun, C. (2001) ‘The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory’, in J. H. Turner (ed.) Handbook of Sociological Theory, pp. 85-112. New York: Plenum .
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Calhoun, C. (2002) ‘Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere’ , Public Culture14(1): 147-172 .
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Calhoun, C. (2003b) ‘Information Technology and the International Public Sphere’, in D. Schuler (ed.) Digital Directions, pp. 229-251. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
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Calhoun, C. (2003c) ‘The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers: Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism’ in D. Archibugi (ed.) Debating Cosmopolitics, pp. 86-116. London: Verso .
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Calhoun, C. (2004) ‘Gerhard Lenski, Some False Oppositions, and The Religious Factor’ , Sociological Theory22(2): 192-204 .
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Calhoun, C. (2006) ‘The University and the Public Good’ , Thesis11 (84): 7-43 .
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Calhoun, C. (2005) ‘The Promise of Public Sociology’ , British Journal of Sociology56(3): 355-363 .
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Calhoun, C. and P. DeLargy , (1996) ‘Rights after Liberation: A Report from Eritrea’ , Dissent (Summer): 129-133 .
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Calhoun, C. and W. Richard Scott (1990) ‘Peter Blau’s Sociological Structuralism’, in C. Calhoun , M. Meyer and W. R. Scott (eds) Structures of Power and Constraint, pp. 1-33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
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Calhoun, C. and J. McGowan (1997) ‘Introduction: Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics’, in Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics, pp. 1-24. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
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Calhoun, C. , E. LiPuma and M. Postone (eds) (1993) Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Cambridge: Polity Press and Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
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Calhoun, C. , P. Price and A. Timmer (eds) (2002) Understanding September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. New York: New Press .
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Cohen, David William and Michael D. Kennedy (eds) (2004) Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office .
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Emirbayer, Mustafa (2004) ‘The Alexander School of Cultural Sociology’ , Thesis Eleven79: 5-15 .
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Kennedy, Michael D. and Miguel Centeno (forthcoming) ‘Internationalism and Global Transformations in American Sociology’, in Craig Calhoun (ed.) Sociology in America: The American Sociological Association Centennial History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
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Sztompka, Piotr (2005) ‘Return to Values and Valuations in Recent Sociological Theory’ , paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, 9 July.
