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Louis Filler
This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five
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On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I
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Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life
Irving Louis Horowitz
This volume includes essays on sociology and socialism, the collapse of class politics, political leadership, the perpetuation of inequality across generations, political extremism, religion as a source of polarization, working-class…
Cuban Communism remains, like its previous ten editions, an important contribution to the field of Cuban Studies
This book is dedicated to a consideration of genocide in the context of political sociology. It demonstrates that the underlining predicates of sociology give scant consideration to basic issues of…
Cuban Communism has widely come to be known as the Bible of Cuban Studies. It has been updated and upgraded for the fortieth anniversary of Castro’s successful seizure of power…
This work emphasizes two key issues of the 21st century. First, transition concerns in a world without Castro, and second, the continuing embargo of Cuba by the USA in the…
A re-examination of genocide, viewing the issue as the defining element in political sociology of our time. This fifth edition concludes with chapters reviewing the history of genocide studies from…
Hannah Arendt: Eine Radikal-Konservative lenkt den Blick auf die Charakterzuge und wissenschaftlichen Leistungen einer ausserst komplexen Ikone. Das Schreiben uber Arendt zeigt exemplarisch, wie stark Leben und akademische Tatigkeit stets…
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A study of how radical thought modifies its actions and ideologies in a time of unrealized and frustrated expectations. It focuses on Georges Sorel and the Europe of the fin…
Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting
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…
Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression
The essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on historical dimensions that has now taken on larger, deeper dimensions in different political economic, and ecological terrain of our…
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…
""The Renaissance Philosophy of Giordano Bruno"" by Irving Louis Horowitz is a comprehensive exploration of the life and ideas of the Italian philosopher and theologian Giordano Bruno. Bruno was a…
Pitirim A. Sorokin,Irving Louis Horowitz
Calamities influence every moment of our existence. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. This volume attempts to account for…
The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication
When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field
*Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography This is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist
Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries drawn from a variety of public occasions to explain the improbable evolutionary event of the human race. He draws on his personal knowledge of 50…
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…
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
Behemoth , derives from the Hebrew word Behemah - a beast. It is an apt description of the State, which grows by turns rivalling and co-opting Society. Political sociology aims…
The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behemah-a beast, an enormous creature, monstrously huge and vast
Irving Louis Horowitz (Rutgers University USA)
Soziale Ideologien und Politische Systeme ist ein Versuch, den Bezug zwischen ideologischen UEberzeugungen und bestimmten geschichtlichen Ereignissen herzustellen, wie etwa Entscheidungen, sich unter totalitaren oder militarischen Zwangen zu widersetzen oder…
The Cuban Revolution did not start with the entrance of guerrillas into Havana on January 1, 1959. As Castro himself made clear, that event culminated several years of armed insurrection…
Irving Louis Horowitz,Irving Louis Horowitz
Aaron Wildavsky,Irving Louis Horowitz
The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title
Robert Nisbet,Irving Louis Horowitz
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development
William Kornhauser,Irving Louis Horowitz
The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems
Thorstein Veblen,Irving Louis Horowitz
Veblen’s classic position on social status is intertwined with his interest in economic class and the political prospects of that class
History and Anti-History in Philosophy demonstrates the viability of the idea of the unity of philosophic thinking and the reflective practice of the history of philosophy
