This is a library of essays by the American

sociologist Martin E. Spencer, professor 

emeritus at the State University of New York

at Oneonta. All files are in PDF format for 

which a free reader may be found at 

www.adobe. com.

 

 

 

 

    Contents:


 
 The Root of All Evil: Moral Communities and the Moral Divisions of Humankind


 
 History and Sociology: An Analysis of Weber's The City


 
 The Social Psychology of Max Weber


 
 The Idea of the Person as a Collective Representation


 
 The Imperial Presidency and the Uses of Social Science


 
 The Idea of the Person


 
 The Three Nationalisms and the World-Imperatives of Late Modernity


 
 On The Nature of Enmity
 

 Bismarck and the Model of Pragmatic Rationality

  What is Charisma  

  An Account of a Racial Episode: Racism, Multiculturalism,
 
And Political Correctness at a Campus in Upstate New York

  Are Jews Responsible for Antisemitism?  

  Smash the Arabs!: Imagic vs. Conceptual Thought in World Politics    

  The Culture of Anti-Semitism in America    

  Why the World Hates the Jews: the Enigmas of Prejudice and Racism    

  Abraham Lincoln Was a Racist! Discuss    

  The Idea of the Will    

  The Roots of Genocide in the Psychology of the Ego  

  Protestant Asceticism and Early Modern Culture  

  Metatheories of History  

  The Idea of Fate: Literature, History, Character, and the Modernization of Consciousness    

  World Politics and the Character of Nations England: The Reigns of William and Anne, 1689-1714    

  A Modern Profile of Evil: Paranoid Antisemitism and the Politics of Extremism   

  Reflections on the Sociology of Burckhardt   

  The Cycle of Historical Knowledge   

  Ideas, Character, and Conduct: An Inquiry into Weber's Sociology of Religion   

  On the Conflict of Social Philosophies in Higher Education   

  Why doesn't he mention so-and-so   

  The Imperfect Empiricism of the Social Sciences   

  Plato and the Anatomy of Constitutions   

  Contractual Legitimacy in Organizations and Governments   

  Conflict and the Neutrals   

  Weber and the Psychology of the Future   

  Social Science and the Consciousness of the Future   

  Calvin   

  The Rule of Law in America   

  The Ontologies of Social Science   

  Images of Groups   

  An Idealist Manifesto   

  Politics and Rhetorics   

  Marx on the State: The Events in France between 1848-1850   

  Lenin  

  Multiculturalism, "Political Correctness" and the Politics of Identity  

  The Evolution of the American Multi-Racial State: From Plessy v. Ferguson to Racial Corporatism   

  On the Moral Inferiority of Whites: A Look At: America's Warped Racial Dialogue  

  The Irrelevance of the Debate on Affirmative Action: The New Politics of Race Relations "  

  Multiculturalism and the New American Racial Constitution  

  Racial Corporatism and the New American Dilemma  

  The Contradictions of Racial Corporatism: the Policy That Dares Not Speak Its Name  

  Immigration and the Dilemmas of the "North"  

  German Political Nationalism  

  Can't We All Just Get Along? Racial Reconciliation in America, and the
  Ethics of Responsibility
 

  The Betrayal of Black America: Diversity and Multiculturalism vs. 
  Racial Integration
 

  Racial Corporatism and the New American Dilemma  

  Nazi Germany  

  Nazism, Malignant Nationalism, and Pathological Nationalism  

  The French Far Right  

  The New American Racial Constitution: The Policy That Dares Not Speak Its Name  

  The New American Racial Constitution
  I. The Old American Racial Constitution
 

  The Pain of Being Black in America(and the False Promises of Black Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Diversity)  

  The Pain of Being Black in America
  and the Dark Side of Multiculturalism
 

  The Russian Far Right  

  Race Relations in America  

  Race Relations in America
 (Part 2)
 

  Race Relations in America
 (Part 3)
 

  Race Relations in America
 (Part 4)
 

  America's Fractured Racial Dialogue: Moral Asymmetry and the Rhetoric of "Racism"