Louis A. Ryan review of The Crisis of Our Age – The Thomist
“I discovered Sorokin in my local public library at age 17 when I was a senior in high school. … There was a book on the library’s shelves which caught my eye: The Crisis of Our Age by one P. A. Sorokin, whom I had never heard of.
“ ‘This looks interesting,’ I thought. …
“The Crisis of Our Age was an intensely stimulating and exciting read for a 17 year old with an interest in history and, especially, the history of ideas. … I could not put the book down, devoured it. It was a very rewarding intellectual exercise for me at that stage in my intellectual development. It challenged me, stimulated me mentally, and greatly expanded my intellectual horizons.”
Roger W. Smith, “Sorokin (Сорокин)”
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Posted here (downloadable Word document ahove) is a very through and thoughtful review of Sorokin’s The Crisis of Our Age by Louis A. Ryan:
book review: The Crisis of Our Age. By Pitirim A. Sorokin. New York: Dutton & Co., 1941. Pp. 338, with index. $3.50.
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
Volume 4, Number 3
July 1942
pp. 523-533
Louis A. Ryan, O.P. was a professor of sociology at the College of St. Mary of the Springs in Columbus, Ohio.
–– posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2022
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 