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<p>Jaworski’s <i>Erving Goffman and the Cold War</i> addresses the question of how Goffman became “Goffman,” that is, the author of his own sociological perspective. Jaworski claims that Goffman as an author was shaped by his own experience of the Cold War. This approach raises important interpretive questions: Does Jaworski “absolutize” (in the Mannheimian sense of the term) by expanding the scope of the influence of the young Goffman’s experiences on his entire work? Does Jaworski’s analysis evade Michel Foucault’s concept of the “rarefaction of discourse”, which encourages us to exercise great caution when trying to explain the nature of a work through the features of its author’s biographical experience? Does Jaworski’s argument, based on the assumption of the continuity of Goffman’s identity, contradict what Goffman, as a pre-postmodern author, might have said about himself? </p>

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Erving Goffman’s Sociology: A Child of Its Time?

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    2026年3月6日

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  • Marek Czyżewski

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Jaworski’s Erving Goffman and the Cold War addresses the question of how Goffman became “Goffman,” that is, the author of his own sociological perspective. Jaworski claims that Goffman as an author was shaped by his own experience of the Cold War. This approach raises important interpretive questions: Does Jaworski “absolutize” (in the Mannheimian sense of the term) by expanding the scope of the influence of the young Goffman’s experiences on his entire work? Does Jaworski’s analysis evade Michel Foucault’s concept of the “rarefaction of discourse”, which encourages us to exercise great caution when trying to explain the nature of a work through the features of its author’s biographical experience? Does Jaworski’s argument, based on the assumption of the continuity of Goffman’s identity, contradict what Goffman, as a pre-postmodern author, might have said about himself?