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philip selznick's life's work is distinctive in character and distinguished in quality. That is equally true of this new book, A Humanist Science, both in its own right and for the underlying themes and implications of that larger body of work and thought, which it discloses, distills, and extends.
Selznick has been an eminent and influential thinker in a wide range of social scientific disciplines, among them organization theory, general sociology, sociology of law, and social philosophy. He has written on many subjects, and his ideas have undergone cumulative refinement and development. Nevertheless, his thought has a deep and sustained coherence. It is, however, a complex coherence, not that of someone with just one thing to say.
One aspect of this coherence lies in Selznick's evolving views of the proper character of social inquiry and of its proper focus. A Humanist Science is above all, and almost literally, a distillation of these views. The word “distillation” is important here. I doubt that many people reading his early work would have realized the extent to which many of the themes central to this one were already animating the particular discussions there. I'm not even sure that Selznick always knew it. Sometimes, however, reading a writer's works backward is revealing. Doing so today, one is struck by the remarkable extent to which Selznick's oeuvre continually plays on and develops a coherent range of deep themes.
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