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BIOGRAPHY

Lukes took his B.A. in 1962 at Balliol College , Oxford . He worked as a research fellow at Nuffield College and lecturer in politics at Worcester College and took his M.A. in 1967. He took his Ph. D. in 1968 on the work of Emile Durkheim . From 1966 to 1988 he was fellow and tutor in politics at Balliol College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a visiting professor at the University Of Paris , New York University, University Of California, San Diego , and the University Of Jerusalem .

From 1974 to 1983 he was President of the Committee for the History of Sociology of the International Sociological Association .

He was the co-director of the European Forum on Citizenship at the European University Institute from 1995 to 1996.


ACADEMIC INTERESTS

His main interests are political and social theory, the sociology of Durkheim and his followers, Individualism , rationality, the category of the person, Marxism and ethics, sociology of morality and new forms of liberalism, varieties of conceptions of power.
the notion of the ''good society'', rationality and relativism, moral conflict and politics.

He is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Sociology and directs a research project on what is left of the socialist idea in Western and Eastern Europe.


PUBLICATIONS

  • Emile Durkheim: his life and work, (1972)

  • Individualism, Blackwell, (1973)

  • Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study, Penguin Press, (1973)

  • Power: a Radical View, Macmillan, (1974)

  • Essays in Social Theory, Columbia University Press, (1977)

  • Rationality and Relativism, edited with Martin Hollis, Blackwell, (1982)

  • Durkheim and the Law, edited with Andrew Scull, Martin Robertson, (1983)

  • Marxism and Morality. Clarendon Press, (1985)

  • The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History, co-edited with M. Carrithers and S. Collins. Cambridge University Press, (1986)

  • Power, Blackwell, (1986)

  • Moral Conflict and Politics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1991)

  • The essay "Five Fables about Human Rights", in On Human Rights, Susan Hurley and Stephen Shute (eds.), Basic Books, (1993)

  • Isaiah Berlin: Tra la filosofia e la storia delle idee. Una conversazione con Steven Lukes, Florence: Ponte alle Grazie, (1994, Italian)

  • The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat, Verso, (1995)

  • Multicultural Questions (ed. jointly, 1999)



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