A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.
Author Biography:
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, USA
Dominik Bartma?ski, Yale University, USA
Gottfried Boehm, Basel University, Switzerland
Hans Belting, Northwestern University, USA
Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University, Canada
Wendy Bowler, LaTrobe University, Australia
Werner Binder, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Philip Smith, Yale University, USA
Ian Woodward, Griffith University, Australia
David Ellison, Griffith University, Australia
Daniel uber, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Slobodan Karamani?, Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, Slovenia
Valentin Rauer, Goethe University Frankfurt Main, Germany
Bernhard Giesen, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Julia Sonnevend, Columbia University, USA
Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University, Poland