Volume 1: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago. Of the 18 essays on social theorists writing in the classical tradition presented, more than half are all-new for this Companion.

Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago. Volume 1 * Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 11 new authors * Includes six new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno * Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay * Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship Volume 2 * Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors * Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others * Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay * Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues