Committee on Social Thought
The Committee on Social Thought ( dt . Committee for social thinking ) is one of several graduate colleges of the University of Chicago . It was founded in 1941 by the US economic historian John Ulric Nef in collaboration with the economist Frank Knight , the anthropologist Robert Redfield and the then university president Robert Maynard Hutchins .
The committee is interdisciplinary and not limited to any specific topic. Rather, scientists and writers have been brought together in order to promote "awareness of the permanent questions at the origin of all learned inquiry" (German about familiarity with the questions of the origin of all knowledge ).
Known members
Significant former members of the committee included a.
- the writers TS Eliot , Saul Bellow and JM Coetzee
- the political scientists Hannah Arendt , James E. Block , Allan Bloom and David Grene
- the sociologist Edward Shils
- the anthropologist Victor Turner
- the poet and philologist AK Ramanujan
- the philosophers Mircea Eliade , Yves Simon , Leszek Kołakowski , Stephen Toulmin , Paul Ricœur
- and the economist Friedrich Hayek .
Eliot, Bellow, Coetzee and Hayek have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
At the moment u. a. the religious scholar Wendy Doniger , the theologian David Tracy , the psychologist and philosopher Jonathan Lear , the philosopher Robert B. Pippin , the classical philologist and literary scholar Glenn W. Most , the economist Robert Fogel , the science historian Lorraine Daston , the sociologist Hans Joas , the poet Adam Zagajewski , the philosopher Heinrich Meier and the art historian Andrei Pop are active on the committee.