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Opening Doors: Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter
Volume 1, Europe
Häftad, 1991
839 kr
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The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alfred Marshall, the work of Joseph Schumpeter is equalled only in monumental significance by his …
Anarchists
Häftad, 2005
849 kr
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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, …
City Politics and Planning
Av Irving Horowitz, Francine Rabinovitz
Häftad, 2007
791 kr
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This volume discusses some of the factors determining the political impact of the city planner on community decision-making. Rabinovitz bases her book on case studies of planning decisions in six New Jersey communities that were chosen for reputations of both effective and ineffective planning. She …
Eli Ginzberg
The Economist as a Public Intellectual
Inbunden, 2002
2658 kr
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The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a 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 …
Tributes
Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research
Inbunden, 2003
1517 kr
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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 …
Behemoth
Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology
Häftad, 1999
747 kr
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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 …
Veblen's Century
A Collective Portrait
Av Irving Horowitz, Irving Horowitz
Häftad, 2001
408 kr
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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 …
Ethics, Science, and Democracy
Philosophy of Abraham Edel
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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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.
Ethics, Science, and Democracy
Philosophy of Abraham Edel
E-bok, 2020
796 kr
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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.
Eli Ginzberg
The Economist as a Public Intellectual
Häftad, 2017
515 kr
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The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a 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 …
Ethics, Science, and Democracy
Philosophy of Abraham Edel
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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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. The methodological element …
Hannah Arendt
Radical Conservative
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
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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 …
Publishing as a Vocation
Studies of an Old Occupation in a New Technological Era
Häftad, 2017
762 kr
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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 …
Tributes
Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research
Häftad, 2017
500 kr
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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 …
City Politics and Planning
Av Irving Horowitz, Francine Rabinovitz
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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This volume discusses some of the factors determining the political impact of the city planner on community decision-making. Rabinovitz bases her book on case studies of planning decisions in six New Jersey communities that were chosen for reputations of both effective and ineffective planning. She …
Culture and Civilization
Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity
Av Irving Horowitz, Irving Louis Horowitz
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed. Emphasizing this fact of the continuing relevance and …
Culture and Civilization
Volume 3, Globalism
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
Culture and Civilization
Volume 1, 2009
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
Culture and Civilization
Volume 2, Beyond Positivism and Historicism
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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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 …
Daydreams and Nightmares
Expanded Edition
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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*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 …
Foundations of Political Sociology
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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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 …
Opening Doors: Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter
Volume 1, Europe
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alfred Marshall, the work of Joseph Schumpeter is equalled only in monumental significance by his …
Professing Sociology
Studies in the Life Cycle of Social Science
Av Irving Horowitz, Irving Horowitz
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
Anarchists
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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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, …
Idea of War and Peace
The Experience of Western Civilization
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
Imperial Republic
The United States and the World 1945-1973
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
War Game
Studies of the New Civilian Militarists
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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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 …
Behemoth
Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology
E-bok, 2017
864 kr
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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 …
Behemoth
Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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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 …
War Game
Studies of the New Civilian Militarists
E-bok, 2017
858 kr
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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 …
