Introduction – The Secularization Debate and a Paradigm Shift The most important sociological thinkers of the 19th century, those who gave birth to the discipline of sociology, men such as Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Herbert Spencer,...
The relationship between Isaiah Berlin’s pluralism and liberalism has been the subject of much critical study. Notably, John Gray, through a non-liberal conception of value-pluralism, has ascribed a form of agonistic liberalism to Berlin. Additionally, George...