Donald G Levine

Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America

It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine enriche...

Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture

In Abyssinian poetry, the “wax” is the obvious meaning, the “gold” is the hidden meaning. In Wax and Gold, Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to seek answers to the following questions: What is the n...

Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades

About the Book: In this remarkable collection, internationally renowned Ethiopianist Donald Levine has assembled interpretive vignettes-some never before published-spanning more than half a century. Thanks to his unique experiences living among peasants of Northern Shoa, visiting historic monasterie...

Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms (Heritage of Sociology Series)

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a...

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite i...

The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory

The essays turn about a single theme, the loss of the capacity to deal constructively with ambiguity in the modern era. Levine offers a head-on critique of the modern compulsion to flee ambiguity. He centers his analysis on the question of what responses social scientists should adopt in the face of...

Social Theory as a Vocation: Genres of Theory Work in Sociology

In this unprecedented collection, Donald N. Levine rejuvenates the field of social theory in the face of lagging institutional support. The work canvasses the universe of types of theory work in sociology and offers probing examples from his array of scholarly investigations. Social Theory as a Voca...

Visions of the Sociological Tradition

Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought."Visions" has three meanings, each of which correspon...

Visions of the Sociological Tradition

Visions of the Sociological Tradition

Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America

Simmel & Parsons: Two Approaches to the Study of Society

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America

Dald N. Levine

Donald Nathan Levine (born 1931) is an American sociologist, educator, social theorist and writer. He is a central figure in Ethiopian Studies.