THIRD REPORT: 1965–6 (published December 1966)
PART II: DEFINITIONS
THE CENTRE: SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS

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Notes

1. published by The University of Birmingham, 1963. Also in THE USE OF ENGLISH, Vol. XV, 2 and 3 and THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR, vol. 33, 2.

2. in A GUIDE TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966, Also in THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR, Vol. 35, 2.

3. Two Working Papers in Cultural Studies, Alan Shuttleworth, (December 1966). Working Paper No. 2: ‘A Humane Centre’ and ‘Max Weber and The “Cultural Sciences”’.

4. For example, in the field of cultural anthropology and some branches of modern linguistics.

5. Max Weber, ‘“Objectivity” In Social Science’, Methodology of the Social Sciences, ed. E. Shils and H. Finch.

6. It might be thought that this consideration is the exclusive concern of the literary scholar and critic. It is interesting, therefore, to recall that Max Weber, whom we quote again at a later point, is aware of the same problem. Writing in ‘The Logic Of The Cultural Sciences’, about the correspondence between Goethe and Frau von Stein, Weber speaks of one sense in which the letters stand as ‘an object of valuation … connected with the incomparable, the unique, the irreplaceable literary element in the object’. An ‘interpretation' based on this criterion is useful for the analyst, Weber says, because it provides ‘knowledge for him in the sense that it, as we say, extends his “inner life” and his “mental and spiritual horizon”, and makes him capable of comprehending and thinking through the possibilities and nuances of life-patterns as such and to develop his own self intellectually, aesthetically and ethically … in a differentiated way – or in other words, to make his “psyche” so to speak, more “sensitive to values”’ … . ‘this valuation of the object in its characteristic uniqueness supplies the reason why the object becomes an object of reflection and of … intellectual treatment, that is, it becomes an object of interpretation’. (Methodology Of The Social Sciences, P143)

7. F.R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit.

8. Max Weber, ‘“Objectivity” In Social Science’, Methodology etc.

9. Max Weber, ‘“Objectivity” In Social Science’, Methodology etc.

10. Max Weber, ‘Logic of the Cultural Sciences’, Methodology of the Social Sciences.

11. Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution.