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Author:   Irving Horowitz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
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9781412862899

ISBN 10:   1412862892
Pages:   578
Publication Date:   30 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I: Philosophical Antecedents to Social Theory; 1: Sense and Structure in Social History; 2: Science and Society in the Enlightenment; 3: The Pre-History of the Sociology of Knowledge; 4: Staking Present Claims on Past Icons; 5: On the Social Theories of Fascism; 6: On Power and Statecraft; 7: Public Affairs and Private Lives; 8: History and Society in Retrospect; 9: Rationalism and Irrationalism in History; 10: Means and Ends in Nationalism; 11: Marxian Myths and Pragmatic Dragons; 12: Utility Theory as Social Theory; 13: Phenomenological Social Science; 14: Closed Societies and Open Minds; 15: Science, Religion and Natural Philosophy; II: Development and Change; 16: Politics, Labor and Development; 17: Misanthropism as Conservatism; 18: Democracy and Development in a One-Party State; 19: Taking Lives and Developing Societies; 20: The Rise and Fall of Counter Insurgency; 21: Massification, Mobilization and Modernization; 22: A Naive Sophisticate; 23: Schisms and Chasms in International Affairs; 24: Reactionary Immortality; 25: Middle Classes and Militarism in Latin America; 26: Prophecy and Postindustrial Myths; 27: Modernization as Abstract Expression; 28: Intellectuals and Social Change; 29: Personal Values and Social Change; 30: Martyrdom and Vietnam; 31: Isolation, Intervention and World Power; 32: Multinational Parochialism; 33: Power and Change in an Industrial Context; 34: The Politics of Urban Research; 35: Anthropological Sociology; 36: Militarism and Development; 37: Class, Race and Pluralism; III: Ethnicity and Religiosity; 38: Manners, Civility and Civilization; 39: Liquidation or Liberation?; 40: First Amendment Blues; 41: Community and Polity; 42: Bodies and Souls; 43: Ethnicity as Experience; 44: Documenting the Holocaust; 45: Eclecticism in Search of an American Theology; 46: The Politics of Genocide; 47: Jewish History and American Destinies; 48: The Jews and Modern Communism; 49: Jewish Soul on Ice; 50: Anti-Semitic Linchpins; IV: Social Research as Ideology and Utopia; 51: Sociological Pragmatism; 52: Behavioral Science as Ideology; 53: Social Contexts of Thought; 54: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything; 55: Law, Order and the Liberal State; 56: Is There an American Power Elite?; 57: Bureaucratic Illusions; 58: American Virtues / Washington Vices; 59: Social Psychology in a Dismal Decade; 60: Political Troubles and Personal Passions; 61: The Warring Sociologists; 62: Culture of Sociology and Sociology of Culture; 63: Is the Future an Extension of the Present?; 64: The Banality of Culture; 65: An American Rorschach Test; 66: A Postscript to a Sociological Utopian; 67: Personal Values and Social Class; 68: The Iconoclastic Imagination; 69: Malevolence and Beneficence in State Power; 70: Sociological Disinformation; 71: A Funeral Pyre for America; 72: Political Pluralism and Democratic Power; 73: Sociology for Sale; V: The Ethical Foundations of Political Life; 74: Open Societies and Free Minds; 75: Tribune of the Intelligentsia; 76: Privacy, Ethics and Social Science Research; 77: From Ideological Ends to Moral Beginnings; 78: Is a Science of Ethics Possible?; 79: The Responsibilities of Sociology; 80: The Tragedy of Triumphalism; 81: The Two Cultures of Policy; 82: Counterrevolutionary Values or National Interests?; 83: Knowledge for Democracy; 84: Revolution, Retribution and Redemption; 85: Social Theory as Revolutionary Virtue; 86: Visions of Revolution and Values of Europe; 87: Knowledge and Its Values; About the Author

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Irving Louis Horowitz (1929-2012) was Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He was the founder and served as chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction Publishers.

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