Background
Birnbaum, Norman was born on July 21, 1926 in New York City. Son of Silas Jacob and Jean (Bermen) Birnbaum.
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(Toward a Critical Sociology) Author: Norman Birnbaum published on (February, 1973)
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the Crisis of Industrial Society
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After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century
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The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European society, a culture of extreme individualism and consumption all but squeezed the welfare state out of existence. Documenting this historic change, After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the 20th Century is the first truly comprehensive look at the course of social reform and Western politics after Communism, brilliantly explained by a major social thinker of our time. Norman Birnbaum traces in fascinating detail the forces that have shifted social concern over the course of a century, from the devastation of two world wars, to the post-war golden age of economic growth and democracy, to the ever-increasing dominance of the market. He makes sense of the historical trends that have created a climate in which politicians proclaim the arrival of a new historical epoch but rarely offer solutions to social problems that get beyond cost-benefit analyses. Birnbaum goes one step further and proposes a strategy for bringing the market back into balance with the social needs of the people. He advocates a reconsideration of the notion of work, urges that market forces be brought under political control, and stresses the need for education that teaches the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Both a sweeping historical survey and a sharp-edged commentary on current political posturing, After Progress examines the state of social reform past, present and future.
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The Crisis of Industrial Society
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The Crisis of Industrial Society
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Radical Renewal
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Traces the post-war development of American intellectual life and offers a positive reading of current intellectual movements.
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Toward a Critical Sociology 1st edition by Birnbaum, Norman (1971) Hardcover
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Toward a Critical Sociology
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Toward A Critiacal Sociology
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Searching for the Light: Essays on Thought and Culture
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Collected here for the first time are a number of important essays that Birnbaum has written over the last twenty years, ranging from such compelling topics as sociology to post-Marxism to education. Two questions inspire these essays. If thinkers are prisoners of their political contexts, how can thought apprehend historical movement? Can moral imagination alter social constraints? Birnbaum sees sociology as historical and philosophical commentary, shaped by politics. In close and subtle examinations of the Marxist legacy, he makes innovative analytical moves and turns Marxism upon itself. His investigation includes an essay on the Marxist theory of religion proving that it is a major contribution to the debate on society and spirituality. An inquiry into the antithesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis asks if any project of human self-transformation is still plausible. In an essay dated 1984, he anticipates the collapse of the Communist regimes and new conflicts in the West. In a stringent article written after the sixties, but which speaks to the nineties, he considers the technocratic servitude of the liberal university. Finally, he describes the contradictory advice offered to President Mitterand when he convened the world's intellectual vanguard in Paris in 1983. Birnbaum concludes, half in melancholy and half in hope, that intellectual inquiry's critical tasks are unending.
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Towards a Critical Sociology (Galaxy Books)
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Sociology, Essays
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Crisis of Industrial Society (Galaxy Books)
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- The Crisis of Industrial Society. OUP. 1969.
- Toward a Critical Sociology(Hardback) - 1973 Edition (New)
- After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Birnbaum (2002-07-11)
- After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century (The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both ...)
Norman Birnbaum
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Education
He was educated in New York City"s public schools, at Williams College, and has a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University.
Career
Editor Office of War Information, 1943-1945. Teaching fellow Harvard University, 1948-1952. Tutor Adams House, 1949-1952.
Assistant lecturer London School of Economics and Political Science, University London, 1953-1955, lecturer, 1955-1959. Fellow Nuffield (England) College, Oxford (England) University, 1959-1966. Visiting professor faculty letters and human science University Strasbourg, France, 1964-1966.
Professor graduate faculty New School Social Research, 1966-1968. Professor Amherst College, since 1968. Member Institute Advanced Study, 1975-1976.
Guest fellow Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 1986. Mellon visiting professor humanities Georgetown University Law Center, 1979-1981. Professor Georgetown University, 1981-2001, professor emeritus, 2001— senior scholar Institute for Policy Studies, since 2002.
Consultant National Security Council, Executive Office President, 1978. Visiting professor Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1991. Chair scholarly advisory board International Institute Peace, Vienna, since 1991.
Achievements
Works
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Searching for the Light: Essays on Thought and Culture
(Collected here for the first time are a number of importa...)
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Radical Renewal
(Traces the post-war development of American intellectual ...)
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After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century
(The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both ...)
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After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century
(The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both ...)
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Toward a Critical Sociology
(Toward A Critiacal Sociology)
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Towards a Critical Sociology (Galaxy Books)
(Sociology, Essays)
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Toward a Critical Sociology(Hardback) - 1973 Edition
(New)
- The Crisis of Industrial Society. OUP. 1969.
- (Toward a Critical Sociology) Author: Norman Birnbaum published on (February, 1973)
- the Crisis of Industrial Society
- The Crisis of Industrial Society
- The Crisis of Industrial Society
- Toward a Critical Sociology 1st edition by Birnbaum, Norman (1971) Hardcover
- After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Birnbaum (2002-07-11)
- Crisis of Industrial Society (Galaxy Books)
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Searching for the Light: Essays on Thought and Culture
Politics
A member of the founding editorial board of New Left Review, he has been active in politics on both sides of the Atlantic He has been an advisor to American trade unions and members of Congress, as well as to a number of social movements and political parties in Europe.
Membership
Consultant Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, 1972-1975. Member Wellfleet Psychohistory Conference, since 1970. Adviser United Auto Workers, Congressional Progressive Caucus, since 1996.
Member executive committee New Democratic Coalition, since 1978, chairman policy advisory council, 1980-1982. Member national executive committee Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, 1973-1977, national advisory board, 1980-1982. Member founding editorial board New Left Review, London, 1959.
Secretary committee sociology religion International Sociological Association, since 1959, chairman, 1970-1974. Adviser Democratic National Campaign, 1976, Edward M. Kennedy campaign, 1979, Cranston campaign, 1980, Jackson campaigns, 1980, 1988. Adviser European Socialist Parties, since 1979.
Founding committee Campaign for American Future, 1996. Fulbright chair University Bologna, 1998. Visitor London School of Economics, 1998, Nuffield College, 2001.
Fellow: Wissen Schafis College, Institute Policy Studies (senior ). Member: Cross of Honor, St. Raimundo Spanish Kingdom, Order of Arts and Letters, French Republican Bearer, International Institute Peace (chair, advisory board since 1996), American Sociological Association (council 1979-1982, columnist El Pais since 1993).
Connections
Children: Anna, Antonia.
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