Stanley Raffel is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at Edinburgh University, UK. He taught social theory at this university for over forty years. He has published numerous articles on contemporary and classic social theory in peer reviewed journals and several books. His latest book is The Method of Metaphor. He was also one of the four authors of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry.

Barry Sandywell is an Honorary Research Fellow in Social Theory in the Department of Sociology in the University of York, UK. As a well-known teacher and social theorist with an academic career extending to four decades he has published major essays and papers in peer-reviewed journals, books and collections devoted to social analysis and cultural theory. His research has focused upon the history of self-reflection in European culture, the foundations of reflexive social theory, the sociology of philosophy, contemporary cultural theory, visual studies, Continental traditions of philosophy and social thought and, more recently, the investigation of discourse formations, narrative and narratological perspectives in the human sciences.

Books by Stanley Raffel