Influential Books: Reviews of Recent Work Volume 53 No. 3 (Autumn 1986) Arien Mack, Editor

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Editor's Note

About ten years ago, a few years after I became Editor of SOCIAL RESEARCH, we made the difficult decision to give up the book review section of the journal.  It was simply not possible to maintain this department of the journal without a larger staff.  Although the decision was a necessary one, it meant that there was one fewer place where new "serious" books in social theory might be brought to the attention of an interested audience.  In an attempt to partially make up for this, we have decided to devote most of an issue to a series of review essays.  The authors were invited to comment on the few books that may have appeared during the last approximately fifteen years which, in their view, substantially influenced an entire field of inquiry.  The first five articles in this issue are responses to that invitation.

Arien Mack
Editor

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• Since Gilgamesh

Charles Tilly
 
• Recent Work in Literary Criticism

David Bromwich
 
• Squaring the Hermeneutic Circle

Judith N. Shklar
 
• The Resurrection of Karl Marx, Political Economist

Robert Paul Wolff
 
• The American Religious History Canon

Martin E. Marty
 
• Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning

Anthony Giddens

Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)

David Bromwich is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University.  He wrote Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic (1983).

Anthony Giddens is Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University.  His most recent book is The Nation-State and Violence (1985).

Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School.  His Modern American Religion: The Irony of It All will be published this year.

Judith N. Shklar is John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University.  Her most recent book is Ordinary Vices (1984).

Charles Tilly is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History and Director of the Center for Studies of Social Changes at the New School for Social Research.  His most recent book is The Contentious French (1986).

Robert Paul Wolff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  His most recent book is Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital (1985).

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