Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago.

Volume 1

• Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 11 new authors
• Includes six new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno
• Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay
• Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship

Volume 2

• Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors
• Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others
• Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay
• Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues