Persuasions and Prejudices An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science 1953 1988 1st Edition by Irving Louis Horowitz ISBN 1412862892 9781412862899

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ISBN 10: 1412862892 
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Author:  Irving Louis 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 literary figures in between. Taken as a whole, this volume will surprise and delight readers who are acquainted with Horowitz’s other works as well as those who are interested in the people he writes about.The book covers notable social scientists, from Arendt to Zetterberg, and such major figures in between as Becker, Bell, de Jouvenel, Mills, Parsons, Solzhenitsyn, and more than eighty others who have had an effect on the contemporary social and political landscape. Each is critically examined, sometimes positively, other times negatively. Horowitz was a major figure in his own right, and his writing here displays the kind of refreshing frankness experts will expect and the general reader will appreciate.The underlying assumption behind the volume, giving its disparate parts a unified characteristic, is that together these observations on others amount to a general perspective on social science held by the author. Whether his larger ambition is accepted or disputed, there is no doubt that the volume provides a standard against which to measure the literary quality of writing in the world of professional social research.

Persuasions and Prejudices An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science 1953 1988 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Philosophical Antecedents to Social Theory
1 Baendel: Sense and Structure in Social History
2 Diderot: Science and Society in the Enlightenment
3 Dilthey: The Pre-History of the Sociology of Knowledge
4 Durkheim: Staking Present Claims on Past Icons
5 Gentile: On the Social Theories of Fascism
6 Hobbes: On Power and Statecraft
7 Hook: Public Affairs and Private Lives
8 Kahler: History and Society in Retrospect
9 Lewis: Rationalism and Irrationalism in History
10 Machiavelli: Means and Ends in Nationalism
11 Marx: Marxian Myths and Pragmatic Dragons
12 Mill: Utility Theory as Social Theory
13 Natanson: Phenomenological Social Science
14 Oppenheimer: Closed Societies and Open Minds
15 Westfall: Science, Religion and Natural Philosophy
Part II: Development and Change
16 Alba: Politics, Labor and Development
17 Banfield: Misanthropism as Conservatism
18 Casanova: Democracy and Development in a One-Party State
19 Davis: Taking Lives and Developing Societies
20 Eckstein: The Rise and Fall of Counter Insurgency
21 Germani: Massification, Mobilization and Modernization
22 Haig: A Naive Sophisticate
23 Hoffmann: Schisms and Chasms in International Affairs
24 Hoover: Reactionary Immortality
25 Johnson: Middle Classes and Militarism in Latin America
26 Kumar: Prophecy and Postindustrial Myths
27 Levy: Modernization as Abstract Expression
28 Molnar: Intellectuals and Social Change
29 Moore: Personal Values and Social Change
30 Muste: Martyrdom and Vietnam
31 Pauker: Isolation, Intervention and World Power
32 Perlmutter: Multinational Parochialism
33 Porter: Power and Change in an Industrial Context
34 Portes: The Politics of Urban Research
35 Redfield: Anthropological Sociology
36 Schmitter: Militarism and Development
37 Smith: Class, Race and Pluralism
Part III: Ethnicity and Religiosity
38 Cuddihy: Manners, Civility and Civilization
39 Deutscher: Liquidation or Liberation?
40 Downs: First Amendment Blues
41 Elazar: Community and Polity
42 Fein: Bodies and Souls
43 Glazer: Ethnicity as Experience
44 Heartfield: Documenting the Holocaust
45 Herberg: Eclecticism in Search of an American Theology
46 Kuper: The Politics of Genocide
47 Neusner: Jewish History and American Destinies
48 Sombart: The Jews and Modern Communism
49 Timerman: Jewish Soul on Ice
50 Yanov: Anti-Semitic Linchpins
Part IV: Social Research as Ideology and Utopia
51 Becker: Sociological Pragmatism
52 Berelson: Behavioral Science as Ideology
53 Coser: Social Contexts of Thought
54 Crozier: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything
55 Dahrendorf: Law, Order and the Liberal State
56 Dye: Is There an American Power Elite?
57 Ellul: Bureaucratic Illusions
58 Etzioni: American Virtues / Washington Vices
59 Gerth: Social Psychology in a Dismal Decade
60 Gitlin: Political Troubles and Personal Passions
61 Gouldner: The Warring Sociologists
62 Graña: Culture of Sociology and Sociology of Culture
63 Heilbroner: Is the Future an Extension of the Present?
64 Henry: The Banality of Culture
65 Janowitz: An American Rorschach Test
66 Mills: A Postscript to a Sociological Utopian
67 Myrdal: Personal Values and Social Class
68 Nelson: The Iconoclastic Imagination
69 Neumann: Malevolence and Beneficence in State Power
70 Parsons: Sociological Disinformation
71 Rogow: A Funeral Pyre for America
72 Rose: Political Pluralism and Democratic Power
73 Zetterberg: Sociology for Sale
Part V: The Ethical Foundations of Political Life
74 Arendt: Open Societies and Free Minds
75 Aron: Tribune of the Intelligentsia
76 Barnes: Privacy, Ethics and Social Science Research
77 Bell: From Ideological Ends to Moral Beginnings
78 Edel: Is a Science of Ethics Possible?
79 Ginsberg: The Responsibilities of Sociology
80 deJouvenel: The Tragedy of Triumphalism
81 Kelman: The Two Cultures of Policy
82 Lipset: Counterrevolutionary Values or National Interests?
83 Lynd and Lynd: Knowledge for Democracy
84 Solzhenitsyn: Revolution, Retribution and Redemption
85 Sorel: Social Theory as Revolutionary Virtue
86 Talmon: Visions of Revolution and Values of Europe
87 Weizenbaum: Knowledge and Its Values

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