The Significance of Shils

Edward Shils was a widely recognized but misunderstood thinker. The original contexts of his thought are not well understood and greatly distorted by associating him with the concerns of Parsons. Shils provides a fully comparable alternative to the thought of Habermas and Foucault, with essentially similar roots: practice theory, the dissolution of Marxism in the twenties, and Carl Schmitt. Though Shils was indebted to the American sociological tradition, with respect to these issues his sources were outside it: in Hendrik de Man, T. S. Eliot, and Michael Polanyi. It is shown how Shils responded to Schmitt's argument about the inherent conflict between democracy and liberalism in terms of an account of civility and tradition, and how this argument results in a critique of Foucault, Habermas, and collectivistic liberalism

Argument (complex analysis) · Civility · Collectivism · Epistemology · Individualism · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

• Science and Politics

  Open Access•Sven Eliaeson•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• Landscapes of the Soul

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• Polanyi defanged

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• Foucault, Law, and Power

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• The state and civility

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• Edward Shils' Theory of Tradition

  Open Access•Struan Jacobs•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•2007

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• Tradition and Cognitive Science

  Open Access•Stephen Turner•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•2003

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• Making a Career in Academia

  Open Access•Raf Vanderstraeten•The American Sociologist•2024

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• Edward Shils’ Turn Against Karl Mannheim

  Open Access•Jefferson Pooley•The American Sociologist•2007

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• Marxism and Islamism

  Open Access•Peter Baehr•Journal of Classical Sociology•2011

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• Expanding the Classical in Classical Sociology

  Open Access•Gary Wickham•Journal of Classical Sociology•2007

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• Temptation, Tradition, and Taboo

  Open Access•Douglas A Marshall•Sociological Theory•2010

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• Toward a rational society

  Jürgen Habermas•Toward a rational society•1971

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• The torment of secrecy

  Edward Shils•The torment of secrecy•1956

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• Max Weber and German politics, 1890-1920

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• Max Weber and German politics

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• The intellectuals and the powers, and other essays

  Edward Shils•The intellectuals and the powers,…•1972

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• A Documentary Study of Hendrik De Man, Socialist Critic of Marxism

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• Natural Right and History

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• Conjectures and Refutations

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• Making of the English Working Class

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• Kritik der reinen Toleranz [von] Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore,Herbert Marcuse.

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• The History of the Maghrib

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• Interpreting Political Responsibility

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• "Rationalism in Politics" (1947)

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• Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays

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• Science, Faith and Society

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• Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

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• Property and Power in Social Theory

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• The proletarian as stranger

  Open Access•Dick Pels•History of the Human Sciences•1998

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• Culture and its Creators

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• A Documentary Study of Hendrik de Man, Socialist Critic of Marxism

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• Michael Polanyi and the sociology of a free society

  Open Access•Louis H Swartz•The American Sociologist•1998

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• Portraits

  Mark J Edwards, Simon Swain•Portraits•1997

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• Toward a General Theory of Action

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• Edward Shils' beliefs about society and sociology

  Open Access•Harold Orlans•Minerva•1996

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• The constitution of society

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• Ethics

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• The crisis of parliamentary democracy

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• The birth of fascist ideology

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• The Meaning of the Coronation

  Open Access•Edward Shils, Michael Young•The Sociological Review•1953

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• Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England

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• The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning

  Open Access•Roy W Hornosty, Edward Shils•The Canadian Journal of Sociology•1981

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• Intellectual Pursuits

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• The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning

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• Culture and Its Creators

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• Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

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• Treason of the Intellectuals

  Open Access•Dick Pels•Theory Culture & Society•1991

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