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""What It Contains"" brings together the newest and most important essays of one of the most eminent and creative 20th-century social theorists, Kurt H. Wolff. More than simply a collection of his essays, Wolff has created a unified book by a highly self-reflexive and self-referential commentary running throughout the text. Extending and expanding on some of Wolff's important earlier work, the book covers topics that are of vital importance today: surrender-and-catch, the ineluctable, man as a mixed phenomenon, and the paradox of socialization. In the course of presenting an important and coherent statement of this sociology, Wolff explores the work of Heidegger, Arendt, Simmel, Mannheim and the themes of dualism, and the abyss of language. This work should stimulate debate among phenomenologists, existentialists, continental thinkers and anyone interested in sociological analysis that is not only extraordinarily learned but also deeply personal.

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A very courageous work that sets aside and yet elucidates conventional views and forms of presentation. A call to reconsider our assumptions. Sociology as poetry!--J. W. (Hans) Mohr

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Kurt H. Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brandeis University. A prolific author of many books and essays, he is perhaps best known as a translator of the work of Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim.

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