Societies
Perry Anderson, 6 July 1989
A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. II: Substantive Social Theory
by W.G. Runciman.
Cambridge, 493 pp., £35, February 1989,0 521 24959 7 Show More
by W.G. Runciman.
Cambridge, 493 pp., £35, February 1989,
“... of the social sciences have the confidence to invoke the ideals of Herbert Spencer and Henry James simultaneously. In his second volume, Runciman proceeds to his own substantive social theory. He remarks at the outset that he will here be concerned only with the explanatory segment of his overall prescriptions. But this involves no shrinkage of horizon ... ”