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Polarity and dialectic in moral experience and cultural expression -- The religion of the transcendental ego: the case of Max Stirner -- Art, anomism, and moral consciousness: the case of Arthur Rimbaud -- Ramblin' for miles around: the life and art of Robert Johnson -- Anomism, puerilism, and the transmoral consciousness: the Charles Manson circle -- Horrible workers in retrospect: comparative and theoretical reflections

A review essay on a book by Guy Oakes & Arthur J. Vidich, Collaboration, Reputation and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois U Press, 1999). The collaboration of Gerth & Mills on a number of scholarly books & the effects of their appropriation of the Weberian tradition in their personal relationship, intellectual works, & interaction with other leading sociologists are discussed. Oakes & Vidich suggest a connection between Weber's method & the incomplete nature of Gerth's work in sociology. In studying the ethical tensions in the Gerth-Mills collaboration, the authors also critique Weber's views on science & ethics, arriving at a rich account of the moral & ethical dilemmas faced by social scientists every day. Questions about the implicit debt that Mills owed to Gerth for Mills's 1951 book, White Collar, are raised. 14 References. M. Pflum

Comments on Franco Ferrarotti's & Ivan Strenski's reviews of Nielsen's Three Faces of God: Society, Religion, and the Categories of Totality in the Philosophy of Emile Durkheim (all, 1999). Ferrarotti's suggestions that further context would be of benefit & that Nielsen's description of categories needs clarification are acknowledged. Strenski, however, is lambasted for his poor reading of the text, delineating several areas where Strenski distorts the book's contents & fails to engage its claims. Personal reasons for Strenski's harsh criticisms are suggested. In Reply to Donald A. Nielsen, Ferrarotti focuses on the idea of context & Aristotle's notion of the state. In Reply to Donald A. Nielsen, Strenski also responds to criticisms regarding, eg, issues of Durkheim's influences. D. Weibel