Books by Edward Shils

Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, an analysis of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, an account of the Polish emigre Leopold Labedz's resistance to communism, and an essay on Nirad Chaudhuri.

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, and the agitation so wildly directed against the "enemy." "Brief...lucid...brilliant."-American Political Science Review. With an Introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan.

Explores the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. This book reveals the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship.

Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. This autobiography reflects on the range of his life's work and activities. It is an important contribution both to the history of the social sciences in the twentieth century and to sociological theory.

Featuring the writing of Edward Shils on the topic of education, this text articulates the ethical demands of the academic profession, directing attention to the integration of teaching and research. Other pieces focus on perennial issues in higher learning, such as the meaning of academic freedom.