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Horowitz, Irving Louis was born on September 25, 1929 in New York City. Son of Louis and Esther (Tepper) Horowitz.
(An authoritative and provocative reader on Latin America ...)
An authoritative and provocative reader on Latin America of the late 60's which provides an overall view of the left-of-center movements, as well as a critique of the internal politics and economics of the continent. This collection of documents describes, in effect, the state of the struggle to bring Latin America into the twentieth century before the rest of the world left it behind. The contributors range from social scientists to social democrats and from left-wing Catholics to post-Mao Communists and Fidelista activists. What they had in common was a shared conviction that essential change - that is, revolution - in this society was inevitable in the 20th century. Many of them were actively engaged in trying to bring it about. This was the first documentary which singled out for special attention the role of the Left in Latin America. In terms of making that role explicit, and of making plain what the ferment on the Left represented. If one can speak of the polarization of left and right in Latin America, one must also take note of the pluralizaton within the Left that took place in fact as a consequence of this larger polarization. This collection represents the co-operative effort of a sociologist, a geographer, and a journalist, who shared an acceptance of broad radical premises for the Hemisphere. The three sections of the book deal with social and economic structure; hemispheric nationalism; and the overriding political and military aspects of the situation at that time. The book is divided into these broad sections for the convenience of the reader, but the themes of nationalism, social development, and political revolution did not exist in a vacuum or in isolation from each other. The essential aim of this book was to offer an integrated picture of Latin America while at the same time presenting the thrust of the left-wing theoretical and political agitations that, by their success or failure, would hold the future of Latin America in balance.
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( Professing Sociology was originally published at a time...)
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 profession, and includes the author’s most significant writings on critical trends shaping the field. Irving Louis Horowitz divides the life cycle of sociology into three main sections. The first deals with the inner life of sociology, covering basic theoretical issues uniting and dividing the profession. In a second section, Horowitz shows the institutions and sources from which the struggle of ideas is nourished. A third section shows how political life shapes the inner life of American sociology. Horowitz gives a great deal of attention to international social science, to the relationship of social science to public policy, and to federal projects and grant agencies and their effects on research. Irving Louis Horowitz was undoubtedly influential in shaping his field, and Professing Sociology offers valuable insights into how ideas become part of the fabric of professional life. As the new introduction by Howard G. Schneiderman shows, Professing Sociology provides a clear picture of sociology at the height of its importance.
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(Irving Louis Horowitz is one of the leading figures in po...)
Irving Louis Horowitz is one of the leading figures in political sociology today: co-founder and long-time publisher of Society/Transaction, the most significant social science periodical, as well as publisher of Transaction Books, a successful social science book publisher. This book is the culmination of his many years of theoretical and practical experience with the problems of scholarly publishing. Among the specific subjects the book deals with are the new technology, notably computers, and their impact on the scholarly community, the relation of fair use and property rights to this technology, and democratic values and constitutional rights in this context. The book also covers the social context of scholarly publishing, including the changing reading public, the role of social scientists, the global politics of publishing, and the future of publishing. Horowitz is concerned about moving beyond two prevailing, and opposing tendencies. The first is an excessive pragmatism in the publishing world, with too much attention focused on profit margins and the "botton line." the other tendency is the intellectualization of scholarly publishing, an approach that denigrates all aspects of publishing other than editorial. About the Author: Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. His many books include Three Worlds of Development, Beyond Empire and Revolution, and Ideology and Utopia in the United States.
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( War gaming has become a characteristic feature of moder...)
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 questions: What is the alternative to playing the game? What will become of us if we allow the opponent to become the better "player" in an all-or-nothing game of extinction? Horowitz provides answers in a logical manner while focusing on facts and ethical alternatives to risky ethics. The work is divided into three sections: The New Civilian Militarists, Thermonuclear Peace and Its Political Equivalents, and General Theory of Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Included are such topics as arms, policies, and games; morals, missiles, and militarism; and conflict, consensus, and cooperation. Horowitz concludes that it is time to register the fact that the basic option to destructive uses of science is not traditional morality, but better science—a science of survival. With a new introduction by Howard Schneiderman along with a major essay and other materials not included in the original edition, this classic work is a worthy contribution to intellectual debate in the twenty-first century and a must read for military strategists, sociologists, and historians.
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( The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph...)
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 by the capacity of a single family to command and determine the fate of a nation—and to do so with a minimum of opposition. Incredibly, even those professing adhesion to democratic norms have been ready to forgive the dictator his excesses. This volume explains the theory and practice of this absence of internal opposition and the persistence of external support for the Castro family and its entourage. The Long Night of Dark Intent is chronological in order, with the author indicating major points in each of the five decades covered. The volume covers five centers of system analysis: economics, politics, society, military, and ideology. Who or what "determines" events and decisions is the stuff of real history. It is precisely due to variability in causal chains in society that we have huge variance in levels of predictability. The course of the Cuban Revolution gives strong support for such an approach to the Castro Era. This is a unique, unflinching account with a strong emphasis on the importance of U.S. policy decisions over time.
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(Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from...)
Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of political extremism. As a result, the field is in crisis. Some departments have been shut down, others cut back, research programs have dried up, and the growth of professional organizations and student enrollments have been either curbed or atrophied. In The Decomposition of Sociology, Professor Horowitz, for four decades a leading social scientist, offers a frank and full account of the maelstrom engulfing this field. Horowitz pulls no punches in this provocative volume. He charges that much contemporary sociological theory has degenerated into pure critique, strongly influenced by Marxist dogmatism. Such thinking has a strong element of anti-American and anti-Western bias, in which all questions have one answer--the evil of capitalism--and all problems one solution--the good of socialism. In criminology, for instance, he shows that high crime rates are seen as an expression of capitalist disintegration, and criminal behavior a covert expression of radical action. Indeed, in one area after another, Horowitz shows how this same formulaic thinking dominates the field, resulting in a crude reductionist view of contemporary social life. At a time when the world is moving closer to the free market and democratic norms, he concludes, such reductionist tendencies and ideological posturings are outmoded. Horowitz offers an alternative. He urges a larger vision of the social sciences, one in which universities, granting agencies and research institutes provide an environment in which research may be untainted by partisan agencies--where policy choices will not be hindered by the prevailing cultural climate. He counsels sociologists to move away from blind advocacy, to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century by incorporating the knowledge of other times and places, and to take into account the shrinking globe--in short, to develop and maintain a new set of universal standards in this era of a world culture. Here then is an eloquent plea for a revolution in sociology, written by one of the field's foremost figures. It offers as well a cautionary tale about the potentially devastating effect of ideology on scholarly pursuits.
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( The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behem...)
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 aims to define and understand the interrelationship between these two huge terms: State and Society. Continuing in a path begun by Horowitz in the 1950s in The Idea of War and Peace in Contemporary Social and Philosophical Thought, expanded upon in the 1970s with Foundations of Political Sociology, this summing up in the late 1990s is an effort to extract and evolve the canon of political sociology. Starting with Montesquieu, Horowitz proceeds through the European experience of Rousseau, Tocqueville, Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, and Weber. He then takes the field on its tangled migration to America with the Frankfurt School in exile, followed by searching chapters on Schumpeter, Mills, Arendt, and Huntington, among others. The result is a stunning revaluation of the intellectual sources of the present day divisions between statists and socialists, welfarists and individualists, advocates of dictatorship and of democracy, mandated rules and voluntary association, hard realists and soft utopians, a world without states and a world with a single state. Horowitz does not offer the usual evolutionary notion of doctrines, but a canon embedded in and embattled with the societies they aim to serve or overthrow in the present as in the past. The result is a major recasting of the theory and practice of social science and normative frameworks. The final chapter offers Horowitz's own prognosis of what we can expect in the recasting of the Welfare State to include the Welfare Society, and its growing nemesis the global economy which threatens to engulf State and Society alike in a return to civilizational concerns. This is an essential text for policy-makers and social scientists interested in macroscopic changes in the political order.
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(Horowitz proposes that rather than viewing the world from...)
Horowitz proposes that rather than viewing the world from the East-West model (two areas of development),the world should be viewed as having three groups, the First World (United States and allies), the Second World (Russia and its allies of the Eastern bloc), and the Third World (non-aligned countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America).
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( When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Politi...)
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 basis. The opening remarks prepared for this new printing provide an estimate of how the field has changed during the past quarter century, and what unexpected challenges have arisen in areas of public trust and personal privacy. This book examines fascism, communism, anarchism, conservatism, and liberalism as systems of rule as well as domains of theory. It is thus a unique effort at linking problems of history with problems of policy. The six sections of the book detail the historical and theoretical antecedents of this relatively new hybrid area in social research: policy coordinates of political sociology, types of social systems, forms of political ideologies, polarities of revolution and counter-revolution, civil-military relations, mass vs. elite contradictions, and threads of consensus and conflict running through these themes. “Horowitz presents as his central thesis that in today’s world no economic determinism can do justice to social reality. Foundations is the work of a politically sensitive and knowledgeable scholar.”—Louis Schneider, Social Forces “Foundations of Political Sociology reflects extensive teaching and research in the area of political sociology. The book combines analytical insight with a provocative cutting edge and represents the best of Professor Horowitz.”—Thomas R. McFaul, The Annals “Horowitz’s political stance is interesting. Though he knows the radical literature, he distances himself from it. He sympathizes with everyone and strives to be provocative and yet elusive—a personal voice in a dogmatic discipline.”—W.J.M. Mackenzie, Political Studies
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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 is divided into five parts: "Present as History Past as Prologue," "Future as Memory," "Toward A General Theory of State-Sponsored Crime," "Studying Genocide." The new edition concludes with chapters reviewing the natural history of genocide studies from 1945 to the present, along with a candid self-appraisal of the author's work in this field over four decades. Taking Lives asserts that genocide is not a sporadic or random event, nor is it necessarily linked to economic development or social progress. Genocide is a special sort of mass destruction conducted with the approval of the state apparatus. Life and death issues are uniquely fundamental, since they alone serve as a precondition for the examination of all other issues. Such concerns move us beyond abstract, formalist frameworks into new ways of viewing the social study of the human condition. Nearly all reviewers of earlier editions have recognized this. Taking Lives is a fundamental work for political scientists, sociologists, and all those concerned with the state's propensity toward evil.
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( *Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography...)
*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. It etches the painful details of a boy’s overcoming alienation and isolation in a hostile place in an unloving family. In the 1930s a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants still resided in predominantly black Harlem. As shopkeepers trying to make out a marginal existence, Harlem’s Jews were a minority within a minority. Into this restricted world the author of this book was born. Irving Louis Horowitz’s parents had fled Russia, his father the victim of persecution in the Tsarist army during World War I. The boy’s schoolmates were the children of black sharecroppers who had immigrated to the North. Poverty, language, and culture all cut off the Horowitz family from traditional community life, and the stress of a survival existence led to the trauma of a deteriorating family unit. Harlem and its environs, the Apollo and the Alhambra theaters, the Polo Grounds, and Central Park were the stage on which a youngster from this ghetto built a kind of self-reliance at the cost of social graces. The recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography, this new, augmented edition contains the author’s reflection of the impact of the Great Depression on Harlem family life.
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Horowitz, Irving Louis was born on September 25, 1929 in New York City. Son of Louis and Esther (Tepper) Horowitz.
BSS, City College of New York, 1951. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Buenos Aires University, 1957.
Fellow, Brandeis University, 1959.
Assistant professor sociology Bard College, 1960. Associate professor social theory Buenos Aires University, 1955-1958. Chairman department sociology Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1960-1963.
From associate professor to professor sociology Washington University, St. Louis, 1963-1969. Chairman department sociology Livingston College, Rutgers University, 1969-1973. Professor sociology graduate faculty Rutgers University, since 1969, Hannah Arendt professor social and political theory, since 1979.
Bacardi chair Cuban studies University Miami, 1992—1994. Visiting professor sociology University Caracas, Venezuela, 1957, Buenos Aires University, 1959, 61, 63, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1960, Syracuse University, 1961, University Rochester, fall 1962, University California, Davis, 1966, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1967, Stanford University, 1968-1969, American University, 1972, Queen's University of Canberra, 1973, Princeton University, 1976, University Miami, 1992. Visiting lecturer London School of Economics and Political Science, 1962.
Principal investigator for numerous science and research projects. Senior editorial advisor Springer Science Publications. Chairman board directors, editor-in-chief Transaction/Aldine.
Senior advisory editor Springer Science and Business Media, since 2007.
(Horowitz proposes that rather than viewing the world from...)
(Irving Louis Horowitz is one of the leading figures in po...)
(An authoritative and provocative reader on Latin America ...)
(Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from...)
(Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from...)
( *Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography...)
( Taking Lives is a pivotal effort to reconstruct the so...)
( When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Politi...)
( Professing Sociology was originally published at a time...)
( The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behem...)
( Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publ...)
( The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph...)
( The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph...)
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Chairman board Hubert H. Humphrey Institute Ben Gurion University. Board member Alexis DeTocqueville Institute, since 2003, chairman board, Horowitz Foundation Public Policy, since 1997. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Founding mem, American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Human Rights Program. Member American Association of University Professors, United States Information Agency (board advisors), American Political Science Association, National Association Scholars (board directors), Authors Guild, Center for Study The Presidency, Council Foreign Relations, International Society Political Psychology (founder), Society International Development, United States General Accounting Office (executive advisory board), United States Information Agency (executive advisory board Radio and television Marti), National Association Scholars (board directors), Institute for a Free Cuba, Raymond Aron Society (North America president since 2004).
Married Ruth Lenore Horowitz, 1950 (divorced 1964). Children: Carl Frederick, David Dennis. Married Mary Curtis Horowitz, 1979.