The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons's students and scholars alike.

Contributors; Introduction -A. Javier Treviño; Part I: Political and Humanist Concerns ; 1. Fighting the Deadly Enemy of Democracy: Sociology against National Socialism -Uta Gerhardt; 2. Parsons's Critique of the "Power Elite" Thesis: Foundations for a Comprehensive Theory of Power -John Scott; 3. The Expressive Revolution and the University: Parsons vs. Gouldner -James J. Chriss; 4. Parsons, Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic Relationship -A. Javier Treviño; 5. Meanings of Life and Death: Insights of the Human Condition Paradigm -Victor Lidz; 6. Luhmann's Reception of Parsons -Sandro Segre; Part II: Social Evolution and the American Societal Community; 7. Explaining Modernity: Talcott Parsons's Evolutionary Theory and Individualism -Matteo Bortolini; 8. Talcott Parsons's Historical Analysis and the Cultural-Political Freeze in China: A Reinterpretation -Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen; 9. Talcott Parsons and American Exceptionalism -Frank J. Lechner; 10. American Society and the Societal Community: Talcott Parsons, Citizenship and Diversity -Giuseppe Sciortino; 11. Parsons and Nisbet: Two Versions of Sociological Communitarianism -Hon-Fai Chen