A professor of sociology at New York University, Steven M. Lukes has written extensively on political and social theory. His research has ranged from the work of Emile Durkheim and his followers to individualism to conceptions of power to the sociology of morality to various themes in the philosophy of social science. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle-on-Tyne, he read philosophy, politics, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first class honors. He went on to study at Nuffield College, Oxford, and became a research fellow there while also lecturing on politics at Oxford’s Worcester College. He became a fellow and tutor at Balliol in 1966 and received his D.Phil. in sociology from Oxford in 1968. Dr. Lukes moved on to the European University Institute in Florence in 1987 as professor of political and social theory, and eight years later he was named director of its European Forum on Citizenship. He became professor of moral philosophy at the University of Siena in 1996 and accepted his present position in 2003. Dr. Lukes has been a Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, a Hofmeyer Fellow at Witwatersrand University, and a visiting professor the University of Paris, University of Sao Paolo, the Colegio di Mexico, Temple University, the University of California at San Diego, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Central European University in Warsaw as well as a “professor invité” at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is a fellow of the British Academy and has served as president of the Committee for the History of Sociology of the International Sociological Association. Co-editor (with William Connolly) of the Blackwell and New York University Press series entitled Readings in Social and Political Theory and (with Raymond Williams) of the Marxist Introduction series for Oxford University Press, he is co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology and a member of the editorial boards of Political Theory, Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Iride, Critical Review, Contention, and the Human Rights Review. Dr. Lukes is the author of more than 110 papers published in scholarly journals, the editor or co-editor of eight books, and the author of ten, including Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work (1975 and 1985), Individualism (1973 and 2006), the now classic Power: A Radical View (1975 and 2005), Marxism and Morality (1985), Moral Conflict and Politics (1991), The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Cariat: A Comedy of Ideas (1995), a satirical fable about the history of ideas, and, most recently, Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity, a defense of liberalism’s ability to address questions of pluralism in democratic societies, which was published by Verso Books in 2003. He is working on an English language edition of Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind and Other Writings by the French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist, the Marquis de Condorcet, for Cambridge University Press and finishing a new book, Moral Relativism, to be published by Profile Books.