Adair-Toteff / Turner The calling of social thought

Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2006-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Edward Shils was a major intellectual and social thinker of the mid-twentieth century. This collection captures the major facets the thought of this complex and controversial figure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adair-Toteff, Christopher

Turner, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: discovering and rediscovering Shils – Stephen P. Turner

1 The philosophical anthropology of Edward Shils – Steven Grosby
2 The sociologist as human scientist: the meaning of Shils – Thomas Schneider
3 The recovery of tradition – Lenore T. Ealy
4 Edward Shils and Michael Polanyi: the terms of engagement – Phil Mullins

5 Shils, Mannheim, and ideology – Christopher Adair-Toteff
6 Shils and Oakeshott – Efraim Podoksik
7 Edward Shils on pluralism and civility – Richard Boyd
8 Nations, nationality and civil society in the work of Edward Shils – Peter Mentzel
9 Shils and the intellectuals – Jeff Pooley
10 Edward Shils and his Portraits – Bryan Turner
11 Edward Shils: defender of the traditional university – Philip G. Altbach
12 Concluding comments: Edward Shils—The ‘Outsider’ – Christopher Adair-Toteff
Appendix: Bibliography of the published works of Professor Edward Shils – C. C. Schnusenberg and G. B. Neavill
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Adair-Toteff is a Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury

Stephen Turner is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa