I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such a stimulating set of review essays about my book Capital and Ideology. I am very honored by the thoughtful articles written by such a distinguished group of scholars coming from sociology, history, political science, anthropology, geography, and economics. There is no way I can do justice to the richness of each review, and it is impossible to address all the stimulating points that they raise. I would like, however, to take this opportunity to briefly clarify a limited number of issues regarding what I have tried to achieve in this book and the many limitations behind such a project.

我非常感谢英国社会学杂志的编辑们为我的书资本和意识形态汇集了如此令人兴奋的评论文章。如此一群来自社会学、历史学、政治学、人类学、地理学和经济学的杰出学者所撰写的深思熟虑的文章让我感到非常荣幸。我无法对每条评论的丰富性做出公正的评价，也无法解决他们提出的所有刺激点。然而，我想借此机会简要澄清有关我在本书中试图实现的目标以及此类项目背后的许多限制的有限问题。