The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the forty years that preceded the Wall's fall
Revolutions are melancholy moments in history—brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment
Originally published in 1975, Ralf Dahrendorf’s Reith Lectures were an important contribution to public debate, exploring as they do the theme of the new liberty and being concerned to refashion liberalism to cope with the problems and tension of contemporary societies.
First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973.
Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe’s leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author’s deep insight into history and political analysis.
The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Certainly, the open society has its own... Læs mere
Der "Homo Sociologicus" ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. […] Der schmalen Schrift ist es nicht unwesentlich zu verdanken, dass der Begriff der sozialen Rolle auch in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie heimisch hat werden können […]."