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Steven Lukes is Professor of Sociology at New York University. His writing and teaching range over political science, political and moral philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His publications include Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work (1973); Individualism (1973); Power: A Radical View (1974, second edition 2005); Essays in Social Theory (1977); Marxism and Morality (1985); Moral Conflict and Politics (1991); Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity (2003); The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas (1995) and Moral Relativism (2005). With Martin Hollis he co-edited Rationality and Relativism (1982) and with Michael Carrithers and Steven Collins, The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History (1986). He is currently working on a new edition of Power: A Radical View and on a book about the sociology of morals.

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The 2017-18 TRUTH Dialogues are a year-long conversation about knowledge crises and politics from humanistic perspectives, co-presented by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities in partnership with multiple Northwestern departments and programs.