Edward Shils Author, Editor & Translator

Edward Shils (1910-1995) was professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His books include Tradition, The Intellectuals and the Powers, Center and Periphery, The Calling of Sociology, The Intellectual Between Tradition and Modernity: The Indian Situation, The Torment of Secrecy, and, with Talcott Parsons, Toward a General Theory of Action. Steven Grosby is professor of philosophy and religion at Clemson University. He is author of Nationalism - A Very Short Introduction and Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern, and edited, with Athena Leoussi, the four-volume Nationality and Nationalism.