Book Review: The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick.

Krygier (p. 198) even rightly mentions that Selznick felt intellectual affinity with Hilary Putnam's philosophical work - without, however, elaborating this important point. Krygier coined the term "Hobbesian idealism" for Selznick, to grasp a seemingly paradoxical combination of ambitious ideals with a realism of power; Selznick's own self-characterization was "humanistic naturalism." Robert Bellah, the great sociologist of religion, is a case in point, as is his long-time Berkeley colleague Philip Selznick, one of the crucial contributors to the sociology of law and organization. [Extracted from the article]