Grosby, Steven

Edward A. Shils (1910-1995) was distinguished service professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His research focused on the relations of public policy and power on the role of the intellectual. His books include Tradition; The Intellectuals and the Powers; Center and Periphery; The Calling of Sociology; The Intellectual between Tradition and Modernity: The Indian Situation; The Torment of Secrecy; and Toward a General Theory of Action.