Influences of romantic tradition to sociology and social theory

In this thesis I investigate the influences of Romantic Movement to sociology and social theory. Imagination, organic totality and experience are appeared as the basic concepts of Romanticism. I argue that creative imagination constitutes an original ontological layer which could be named as "transcendental-amprical" or "mundus imaginalis". I tried to show that in figures like Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this romantic element of creative imagination is at work to shape the social theoretical knowledge.