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Philip Selznick : ideals in the world / Martin Krygier.

LIBRA K370 .K794 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Krygier, Martin, author.
Series:
Jurists-- profiles in legal theory
Jurists: profiles in legal theory
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Selznick, Philip, 1919-2010.
Selznick, Philip.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Organizational sociology.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Physical Description:
xii, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, 2012.
Summary:
Philip Selznick's Wide - Ranging Writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including sociology, organizations and institutions, leadership, political science, sociology of law, political theory, and social philosophy. This volume, the first book-length treatment of Selznick's ideas, discusses Selznick's various intellectual contributions.
Reading across Selznick's work, one appreciates the coherence of his fundamental preoccupations-with the social conditions for frustration and the vindication of values and ideas. Exploring Selznick's insights into the nature and quality of institutional, legal, and social life, the book also examines his particular ways of thinking, concerns, values, and sensibility. Martin Krygier brings to light the coherence of Selznick's fundamental interests, allowing readers to fully engage with his unique insights and distinctive moral-intellectual sensibility. Book jacket.
Contents:
The "tragedy of organization"
The ideal and the real
Organizations and ideals
Institutional leadership
Pathos and politics
Jurisprudential sociology
The rule of law : expansion
The rule of law : transformation
Values, conflict, development
Morality and modernity
Communitarian liberalism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-319) and index.
ISBN:
0804744750
9780804744751
OCLC:
751250341
Publisher Number:
99948879666

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