Rabindra Nath Mukerjee and Arunansu Ghoshal, Social Thought from Comte to Mukerjee. Delhi: Vivek Prakashan, 2015 (First Published 1999), 316 pp., ₹400 (hardback), ISBN: 978-81-7004-212-7.
This article provides an extended review of The Calling of Social Thought, a collection of essays about the thought of social theorist Edward Shils. The article includes preliminary observations about Shils’ life and work, brief summaries of the essays included in the collection, and several suggestions aimed at encouraging additional study of Shils’ writings.