Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Introduction The original versions of the papers collected in this issue were given at a conference "In the Company of Animals," held at the New School for Social Research in April 1995 which was part of a multi-institutional collaboration organized under the auspices of Social Research . Harriet Ritvo Section Introduction: Categories The article focuses on the social contexts of technology in modern society. Technology has a central—but prepon

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue is devoted to reflections on the power of metaphor in the social sciences....

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction The papers in this issue are based on presentations given at a conference held at...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Introduction Social Research has appeared four times a year for the past 60 years which probably ranks it...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Introduction This issue was occasioned by John Gray’s provocative article which appeared in the July 3,...

Arien Mack, Editor G. M. Tamás A Disquisition on Civil Society The article discusses aspects of the civil society and its relation to...

Arien Mack, Editor David Gordon 'Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Mainstream Economics and the Formation of Economic Policy This article presents an argument regarding the mainstream economics and the formation of economic policy in the US. On a wide variety of economic policy issues, neoclassical economists tend to support a narrow policy orientation that insists on elevating considerations of efficiency over those of equity that leans consistently toward reliance on the free mark

Arien Mack, Editor Bernard Flynn Reiner Schurmann (1941–1993) Arien Mack Editor's Introduction Claus Offe The Politics of Social Policy in East European Transitions: Antecedents, Agents, and Agenda of Reform This article focuses on problems regarding social policy in postcommunist societies in Eastern Europe. Postcommunist political economies face three problems of transformation: property must be privatized; prices must be liberalized or marketized; and the state budget m

Arien Mack, Editor Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Introduction Jean Bethke Elshtain Politics without Cliche This article focuses on the use of...

Arien Mack, Editor Deborah Poole Introduction Jonathan Friedman Order and Disorder in Global Systems: A Sketch This article offers...

Arien Mack, Editor Reiner Schurmann Hans Jonas (1903–1993) [in memoriam] Presents an obituary for ethicist Hans Jonas. John R. Searle The...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue is entirely devoted to papers at the Graduate Faculty of The New School....

Arien Mack, Editor Margaret C. Jacob Science and Politics in the Late Twentieth Century Science and politics were once believed to be...

Arien Mack, Editor Vittorio Hösle The Third World as a Philosophical Problem Analyzes the historical genesis of the third-world problem...

Talal Asad, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Talal Asad Religion and Politics: An Introduction Analyzes the sociopolitical effects...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction Jerzy Szacki Polish Democracy: Dreams and Reality Discusses the iconographic...

Arien Mack, Editor Joseph A. Schumpeter Money and Currency with Introduction by Richard Swedberg This article analyzes the first two...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction David Bromwich The Context of Burke's Reflections This article analyzes the context...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction Presents an obituary for ethicist Hans Jonas. Stanley Cavell The Idea of Home:...

Arien Mack, Editor James Walkup, Guest Editor James Walkup Editor’s Introduction Ted Winslow Bloomsbury, Freud, and the Vulgar Passions...