Citation

Wolff KH. Sociol. Relig. 1977; 38(4): 397-401.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, Association for the Sociology of Religion)

DOI

10.2307/3710122

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The article seeks to isolate three meanings of the radicalness of surrender, which, undifferentiatedly, is the state and the relation of cognitive love, entailing total involvement, suspension of received notions, pertinence of everything, identification, and risk of being hurt. Building above all on the second of these characteristics, the suspension of received notions (which is being compared with the phenomenological suspension), the three meanings of the radicalness of surrender result as, first, the surrenderer's being in the world; second, surrender as an element in a theory of society; and third, surrender as a criterion of maximum or optimal research.