Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social
science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and …

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The attraction of morality in times of affluence is that not much of it seems needed. More
choices are available and thus fewer harsh dilemmas arise. If they arise, money can be used …

Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn
from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers …

Is philosophy dead? Some philosophers have declared it to be so, and judging by some of
the mental acrobatics now fashionable in postmodernist circles a reasonable person might …

The intellectual scope and courage to contend with the largest puzzles of human existence
and organization distinguish great social thinkers. Barrington Moore's Social Origins of …

When all the momentous current changes in technology and social structure have run their
course, we will have created a new world society. Will this society--the total complex of who …

A distinguished cross-cultural researcher presents a brave, heartfelt and exciting challenge
to the social sciences: the creation of an international, moral order. He advocates the use of …

Contemporary social scientists are extremely divided in their evaluation of the rationality of
modern society. Two illustrations should suffice. For Talcott Parsons the system constitutive …