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  • ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND DEMOCRACY
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    ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND DEMOCRACY
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ / H. S. THAYER
    This volume, modeled after those published in The Library of Living Philosophers, attempts to provide a coherent statement of the work of Abraham Edel in moral and political theory, and on the impact of his work on such diverse areas as education, law, and social science. ...

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  • THE ANARCHISTS
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    THE ANARCHISTS
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    In his new introduction to The Anarchists, Horowitz points out that anarchism is an ideology in search of a movement, and also a psychology in search of a polity. While this seems to be a paradox, the fact is that anarchism has more than one hundred thousand entries on electronic search engines, but one can search high and low for a society that embraces its essential anti-Stat...

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  • CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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    CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed. Emphasizing this fact of the continuing relevance and importance of religion as a driving force in contemporary life is the stunning emergence o...

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  • DAYDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
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    DAYDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    *Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography This is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist. It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive. Here in an astonishing and candidly written memoir by one of America's premier social scientists recounting the intensely personal story of his tormented youth in a ghetto within a ghetto...

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  • CUBAN COMMUNISM, 1959-2003
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    CUBAN COMMUNISM, 1959-2003
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    "Cuban Communism remains, like its previous ten editions, an important contribution to the field of Cuban Studies. It includes many useful chronological facts, as well as a selection of Fidel Castro's speeches which are interesting and informative for any reader interested in the island." -- Maria Gropas, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge This new 11th ...

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  • CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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    CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Volume three of Culture & Civilization continues a pattern in this annual series of dealing with major themes of the past, with a strong sense of how the everyday world of the second decade of the twenty-first century impacts cultural history and civilizations pushing up against each other. A constant theme throughout is the immediate impact of Globalism: in economics, governme...

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  • CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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    CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are critical pivots in the formation of a larger mosaic of culture and civilization. A tradition has developed and refuses to dissolve under the withering aspe...

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  • CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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    CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are not words that represent an unmitigated good, nor for that matter, do they exhaust what is new in the human condition. Past writing on the theme of culture has emphasized the growth and exp...

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  • FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
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    FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides a cross-fertilization of knowledge concerning the interrelation of social class and political power. Taking into account new specializations in social theory, the book covers all major social systems on a comparative international b...

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  • ELI GINZBERG
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    ELI GINZBERG
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptycha career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well be considered economic ethnography. His studies took him on travels from Wales in the United Kingdom to Cali...

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  • COMMUNICATING IDEAS
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    COMMUNICATING IDEAS
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examining classic problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the spe...

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  • BEHEMOTH
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    BEHEMOTH
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behemah-a beast, an enormous creature, monstrously huge and vast. It is an apt description of the State on the eve of the twenty-first century. Loved by few, vilified by many from all perspectives, it nonetheless continues to grow; by turns rivaling and co-opting that more pleasant-sounding word: Society. Political sociology aim...

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  • TRIBUTES
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    TRIBUTES
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science, Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries drawn from a variety of public occasions to explain one segment of this improbable e...

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  • HANNAH ARENDT
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    HANNAH ARENDT
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Writing about Hannah Arendt is an exercise in the biographic intersecting with the academic. It is an effort to bring together contexts of work with contents of thought. Th...

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  • PUBLISHING AS A VOCATION
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    PUBLISHING AS A VOCATION
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication. Publishers are now part of the astonishing transformation of the slow to the instant. From twitters to bloggers, the communication of ideas can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes, not weeks, months, or even years.Horowitz believes that at its best, information technology can be harnesse...

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  • THE WAR GAME
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    THE WAR GAME
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of military circles, we have come up against the phenomenon of the "robotization" of human life. Irving Louis Horowitz argues that those who protest the idea that war is a game do so on moral grounds that leave unanswered tough quest...

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  • VEBLEN'S CENTURY
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    VEBLEN'S CENTURY
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Thorstein Veblen has a place of honor reserved for truly important figures. Economist, iconoclast, social critic, and moral judge of the American way of life, he has continued to attract the attention of students and scholars alike. People from every spectrum of political thought and every branch of the social sciences have been drawn to his work-sometimes in praise, other time...

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  • THE IDEA OF WAR AND PEACE
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    THE IDEA OF WAR AND PEACE
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression. In examining the main currents in modern social theory, the author has gone directly to the works of the leading philosophic figures. This book is a carefully documented analysis based on primary sources. Its republication in an expanded v...

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY AND CLASS POLITICS
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    CIVIL SOCIETY AND CLASS POLITICS
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    Seymour Martin Lipset's work throughout a long and distinguished career has been stamped by several features: a powerful linkage of research data and social theory, innovative views of historical events, and a realization that politics is an activity native to all human beings, voters and non-voters, democratic and non-democratic systems, and advanced and developing economies. ...

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  • TAKING LIVES
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    TAKING LIVES
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    Taking Lives is a pivotal effort to reconstruct the social and political contexts of twentieth century, state-inspired mass murder. Irving Louis Horowitz re-examines genocide from a new perspective-viewing this issue as the defining element in the political sociology of our time. The fifth edition includes approximately 30 percent new materials with five new chapters. The work ...

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  • MAN AND SOCIETY IN CALAMITY
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    MAN AND SOCIETY IN CALAMITY
    PITIRIM A. SOROKIN / IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    This is an age of great calamities. War and revolution, famine and pestilence, are again rampant on this planet, and they still exact their deadly toll from suffering humanity. Calamities influence every moment of our existence: our mentality and behavior, our social life and cultural processes. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action w...

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  • THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
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    THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
    IRVING HOROWITZ / RAYMOND ARON
    The Imperial Republic based as it is on Raymond Aron's realist philosophy, is involved only indirectly or by implication in the disputes about moralism, revisionism, and even imperialism. Its main aim is to account for the diplomacy of the United States as it was in a special time period. Like all diplomacy, it can be explained only within the system of inter-state relations to...

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  • THE LONG NIGHT OF DARK INTENT
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    THE LONG NIGHT OF DARK INTENT
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere.For more than a half century since then Cuba has been defined...

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  • PERSUASIONS AND PREJUDICES
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    PERSUASIONS AND PREJUDICES
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about; this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz. For this volume, he selected his comments on famous, near famous, and infamous sociologists, political scientists, and assorted liter...

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  • ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS
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    ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ / ANDREW MCINTOSH / PATRICK IVINS / DEBORAH BERGER
    Candor, breadth, judiciousness-all these are attributes Irving Louis Horowitz possesses as a scholar. Under his leadership there is no academic publication from which I have learned as much as Transaction-Society."David Riesman, Harvard University "We are all happy benefi ciaries of Horowitz's acutely perceptive and (often) devas-tatingly plain-spoken self as sociologist and sa...

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  • PROFESSING SOCIOLOGY
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    PROFESSING SOCIOLOGY
    IRVING HOROWITZ
    Professing Sociology was originally published at a time when sociology commanded widespread interest and public funding. Written by one of the leaders of "the new sociology" of the late sixties, this volume captures the nature and intensity of the field's intellectual foundations and scope. It reveals the field's post-World War II development as a scientific discipline and as a...

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  • RADICALISM AND THE REVOLT AGAINST REASON (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    RADICALISM AND THE REVOLT AGAINST REASON (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
    Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance. A study of how radical thought modifies its actions and ideologies in a time of unrealized and frustrated expectations, the focus is on Georges Sorel and the Europe of the fin de siècle, a time when soci...

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