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1. Recent Works on the history of social thought

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1970 , pp. 130 - 142
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* Nisbet, Robert A., The Sociological Tradition (London, Heineman, 1967)Google Scholar; Aron, Raymond, Main Currents in Sociological Thought (New York, Basic Books, 1967)Google Scholar; Zeitlin, Irving M., Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1968)Google Scholar.

** In this review, I cover only some of the recent literature upon Marx, K., Weber, M., Durkheim, É. and Pareto, V.: Lefebvre, Henri, The Sociology of Marx, transl. by Guterman, Norbert (London, Allen Lane, 1968)Google Scholar; Avineri, Shlomo, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1968)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Freund, Julien, The Sociology of Max Weber (London, Allen Lane, 1968)Google Scholar; Löwenstein, Karl, Max Weber's Political Ideas in the Perspective of our Time (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1966)Google Scholar; Bierstedt, Robert, Émile Durkheim (New York, Dell, 1966)Google Scholar; Nisbet, Robert A., Émile Durkheim (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1965)Google Scholar; Henderson, Lawrence J., Pareto's General Sociology, A Physiologist's Interpretation (New York, Russell and Russell, 1967)Google Scholar; Finer, S. E., Vilfredo Pareto, Sociological Writings (London, Pall Mall Press, 1966)Google Scholar.

(1) Nisbet has previously advanced the (1) Nisbet has previously advanced the same thesis elsewhere. See his Conservatism and Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, LVIII (1952), pp. 167–175Google Scholar.

(2) Max Weber, Science as a Vocation, in Gerth, H. H. and Mills, C. Wright, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (New York, Oxford University Press, 1946)Google Scholar; Simmel, Georg, Lebensanschauung: vier metaphysische Kapitel (Munich/Leipzig 1918)Google Scholar.

(3) The neglect of the importance of Marxism, and of socialism more generally, as a stimulusto, and as a basis for, Western sociological theory is of course particularly marked in the American literature on the subject. To give a simple example, Barnes', Harry ElmerAn Introduction to History of Sociology (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948)Google Scholar, which includes papers on numerous theorists of significance in the development of sociological theory, has no essay on Marx at all.

(4) In spite of the fact that the author has also published a study of Marx as a separate work. Zeitlin, Irving M., Marxism: a Re-examination (Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1967)Google Scholar.

(5) The article by Löwith still remains one of the more penetrating comparisons of Marx and Weber, See Löwith, Karl, Marx, Max Weber und Karl, Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sosialpolitik, LXVIII (1932), pp. 53–99 and 175–214Google Scholar.

(6) E. g., Easton, Loyd D. and Guddat, Kurt H., Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society (New York, Doubleday, 1967)Google Scholar.

(7) Marx, Karl, Theories of Surplus Value (London, Lawrence and Wishart, vol. I: 1964, vol. II: 1969)Google Scholar. The final volume will appear shortly.

(8) Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. A French translation exists, under the title Fondements de la critique de l'iconomie politique (Paris, Anthropos, 1967), 2 volsGoogle Scholar. A fragment from the work has been translated into English as Pre-capitalist Economic Formations, ed. by Hobsbawmn, E. (London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1964)Google Scholar.

(9) Lefebvre, op. cit. originally published as Sociologie de Marx (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1966)Google Scholar; Avineri, op. cit.

(10) Weber, Max, Economy and Society, ed. by Roth, Guenther and Wittich, Claus (New York, Bedminster Press, 1968), 3 volsGoogle Scholar. The three volumes include most of the separate translations which have been previously made of sections from Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, such as Parsons' Theory of Social and Economic Organisation. But all of these have been substantially revised and annotated by Roth and Wittich.

(11) Bendix, Reinhard, Weber, Max, An Intellectual Portrait (London, Methuen, 1966)Google Scholar. Originally published in 1959.

(12) Freund, op. cit. Originally published as Sociologie de Max Weber (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1966)Google Scholar.

(13) However Parlament und Regierung im neugeordneten Deutschland has been Translated and placed as an Appendix to the third volume of the English edition of Economy and Society; and Politik als Beruf is in H. H. Gerth and W. Wright Mills, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, loc. cit.

(14) Mayer, J. P., Max Weber and German Politics (London, Faber and Faber, 1956)Google Scholar.

(15) Löwenstein, , op. cit. translated from the German edition of 1965Google Scholar.

(16) Mommsen, Wolfgang J., Max Weber und die deutsche Politik 1890–1920 (Tübingen, Mohr, 1959)Google Scholar. Parts of the book have stimulated considerable critical reaction. For a discussion of some of these issues, cf. Aron, Raymond, Max Weber und die Machtpolitik and the commentaries which follow it, in Max Weber und die Soziologie heute (Tubingen, Mohr, 1965)Google Scholar.

(17) Émile, Durkheim, L'éolution pédagogique en France (Paris, Alcan, 1938), 2 volsGoogle Scholar; Pragmatisme et sociologie (Paris, Vrin, 1955)Google Scholar.

(18) Wolff, Kurt H., Émile Durkheim et al., Essays on Sociology and Philosophy2 (New York, Harper and Row, 1964)Google Scholar, originally published in 1960; Tiryakian, Edward A., Sociologism and Existentialism (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1962)Google Scholar.

(19) Alpert, Harry, Émile Durkheim and his Sociology (New York, Columbia University Press, 1939)Google Scholar. Important posthumous works by Durkheim have appeared since the War, including in particular the course in lectures published as Lepons de sociologie: Physique des maurs et du droit (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1950)Google Scholar, translated into English as Professional Ethics and Civic Morals (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957)Google Scholar.

(20) Bierstedt, op. cit.

(21) Nisbet, op. cit.

(22) Pareto, Vilfredo, Les systèmes socialistes (Paris 1902), 2 volsGoogle Scholar.

(23) Henderson, op. cit.

(24) Finer, op. cit.

(25) Some of these lacunae promise shortly to be filled; thus T. B. Bottomore will in the near future publish a work on Marxism and Sociology, and Steven Lukes has completed a lengthy study of Durkheim.