Calling of Social Thought

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

• Introduction: discovering and rediscovering Shils – Stephen P. Turner 1 The philosophical anthropology of Edward Shils – Steven Grosby2 The sociologist as human scientist: the meaning of Shils – Thomas Schneider3 The recovery of tradition – Lenore T. Ealy4 Edward Shils and Michael Polanyi: the terms of engagement – Phil Mullins 5 Shils, Mannheim, and ideology – Christopher Adair-Toteff6 Shils and Oakeshott – Efraim Podoksik7 Edward Shils on pluralism and civility – Richard Boyd8 Nations, nationality and civil society in the work of Edward Shils – Peter Mentzel9 Shils and the intellectuals – Jeff Pooley10 Edward Shils and his Portraits – Bryan Turner11 Edward Shils: defender of the traditional university – Philip G. Altbach12 Concluding comments: Edward Shils—The ‘Outsider’ – Christopher Adair-ToteffAppendix: Bibliography of the published works of Professor Edward Shils – C. C. Schnusenberg and G. B. NeavillIndex

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