Corrigan, Philip R. D.
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| Birthname | Philip Richard Douglas Corrigan | ||||
| born on | 9 June 1942 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Paddock Wood, England (UK), 51n11, 0e23 | ||||
| Timezone | BDST h2e (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   18°00'   29°52 Asc. 21°14'
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Biography
British-Canadian sociologist who was director of the Philip Abrams Centre for Historical Sociology, University of Exeter, and a professor in Applied Sociology at OISE, University of Toronto, 1983-1989, among numerous academic positions.
He was one of the five Managing Editors of the Journal of Historical Sociology.
His books include Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference (Routledge 1990). He wrote an award-winning trilogy of books that take the city of Prague (where he lived from 1991-1993) as an alternative vantage point from which to rethink "modernity", namely The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (1998); Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (2013); and Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History (2022).
Philip R. D. Corrigan died in April 2021 at age 80.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes him in "The Making of the Boy," Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing Educational Boundaries, edited by Henry A. Giroux (State University of New York, 1991), page 197:
"I was born on June 9, 1942, in Paddock Wood, Kent, England, U.K., Europe at 2 p.m."
Categories
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (Canada)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Sociologist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction