In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great
late-twentieth-century sociological theorists, brings together
diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and
Merton are set into a dialogue with philosophers such as Hobbes,
Smith, Montesquieu, Comte, Kant, and Hegel and pragmatists such as
Peirce, James, Dewey, and McKeon to describe and analyze dialogical
social theory. This volume is one of Levine's most important
contributions to social theory and a worthy summation of his life's
work. Levine demonstrates that approaching social theory with a
cooperative, peaceful dialogue is a superior tactic in theorizing
about society. He illustrates the advantages of the dialogical
model with case studies drawn from the French Philosophes, the
Russian Intelligentsia, Freudian psychology, Ushiba's aikido, and
Levine's own ethnographic work in Ethiopia. Incorporating themes
that run through his lifetime's work, such as conflict resolution,
ambiguity, and varying forms of social knowledge, Levine suggests
that while dialogue is an important basis for sociological
theorizing, it still vies with more combative forms of discourse
that lend themselves to controversy rather than cooperation, often
giving theory a sense of standing still as the world moves forward.
The book was nearly finished when Levine died in April 2015, but it
has been brought to thoughtful and thought-provoking completion by
his friend and colleague Howard G. Schneiderman. This volume will
be of great interest to students and teachers of social theory and
philosophy.
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