Philip Selznick
Subtitle: ideals in the world
By: Martin Krygier
Series: Jurists: profiles in legal theory; Jurists-- profiles in legal theory
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Law Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780804744751
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Organizational sociology; Philosophy; Sociological jurisprudence; Social sciences
Description: 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 book-length treatment of Selznick's ideas discusses his various intellectual contributions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "tragedy of organization"; title: The ideal and the real; title: Organizations and ideals; title: Institutional leadership; title: Pathos and politics; title: Jurisprudential sociology; title: The rule of law : expansion; title: The rule of law : transformation; title: Values, conflict, development; title: Morality and modernity; title: Communitarian liberalism.