Description

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"What makes this book stand out is the way in which Mazlish situates sociology in the broader context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social thought. This is the most interesting treatment I have read of how there came to be a felt need for sociology, of how a place was created in the intellectual firmament for this new science."

--Craig Calhoun, University of North Carolina

About the Author

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Bruce Mazlish is Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded the Toynbee Prize for 1986-87. His books include The Fourth Discontinuity (1993), James and John Stuart Mill (1975), and The Western Intellectual Tradition, with J. Bronowski (1960).