> Richard Seymour is totally right that Giddens' early work is very
> respectable (the swot-ups on Marx, Weber and Durkheim, and the one
> empirical work on the Class Structure of the Advanced Societies -- still
> all good introductions for graduate students). But his genius was for
> haute vulgarisation, for explicating clearly the ideas of others and
> esp. the classics of social theory. Once he started expounding his own
> theories, it all got very fuzzy very quickly. Which seems to have been
> an asset in becoming a bankable star.
Well, we always have his early work!
Miles