This essay is part of a symposium on Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and responds to comments on the book by Angel Adams Parham, Joseph Gerteis, Peter Kivisto, and Fuyuki Kurasawa. As all these commentators recognize, the history of social theory at its best involves more than conserving, inculcating, and consecrating the sociological canon or even remaking the canon through the addition of previously neglected authors. The history of social theory also allows scholars to address fundamental questions in the sociology of knowledge, the comparative investigation of different kinds of alterity, and the study of social solidarity and belonging. This essay reflects on how best to address these questions and suggests ways that new research in the history of social thought can build upon and extend existing scholarship.

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通过社会思想史的社会学洞察：西方社会思想中现代性与犹太人的对话

本文是西方社会思想中的现代性和犹太人研讨会（芝加哥大学出版社，2017 年）的一部分，并回应了 Angel Adams Parham、Joseph Gerteis、Peter Kivisto 和 Fuyuki Kurasawa 对该书的评论。正如所有这些评论家所承认的，最好的社会理论史不仅仅包括保存、灌输和圣化社会学经典，甚至通过增加以前被忽视的作者来重新制作经典。社会理论的历史还允许学者解决知识社会学、不同类型他异性的比较研究以及社会团结和归属研究中的基本问题。