What It Contains

What It Contains brings together the newest and most important essays of one of the most eminent and creative twentieth-century social theorists, Kurt H.

Wolff. More than simply a collection of essays, this is a unified book with a highly self-reflexive and self-referential commentary running throughout the text.

Extending and expanding on some of Wolff's important earlier work, the book covers topics that are of vital importance today: surrrender-and-catch, the ineluctable, man as a mixed phenomenon, and the paradox of socialization.