Tributes Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research 1st Edition by Irving Horowitz ISBN 978-0765802187 076580218X

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Author: Irving Horowitz

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 drawn from a variety of public occasions to explain one segment of this improbable event. In the process he reveals how the past century was defined in substantial measure by the rise of social research.

Commenting on Tributes, Daniel Mahoney observes, “some pieces are completely authoritative and detailed, others more conversational and informal. That diversity of approaches tied to the special character of these people increases the readability and interest in the book as a whole. In addition to illuminating the life and thought of these major figures, these essays and addresses reveal the impressive catholicity of Horowitz’s concerns and his ability to remain open to the widest range of theoretical and practical approaches.” In a certain sense, this book is also an intellectual autobiography in the form of an expression of Horowitz’s debt to intellectual interlocutors and influences over the years. As a consequence, Tributes will be of the greatest interest to anyone who wishes to come to terms with the intellectual formation of the people who gave substance to new ways of experiencing as well as explaining society. The book is thus a thoughtful guide to the intellectual life of our times.

From Arendt and Aron to Veblen and Wildavsky, these essays take shape as a systematic mosaic of the past century. Written by a central participant in social theory, Tributes is both an informal guide and a formal text for readers coming upon social science innovators for the first time. The book breaks the boundaries of conventional discourse and in so doing gives voice to the outstanding figures that helped make the twentieth century “the century of social research.”

Table of contents: 

Introduction

1. Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) – Juridical Critic of Totalitarianism

2. Raymond Aron (1905–1983) – Tribune of the European Intelligentsia

3. Digby Baltzell (1916–1996) – Private Paradoxes and Public Losses

4. Ernest Becker (1924–1974) – An Appreciation of a Life

5. Herbert Blumer (1900–1987) – The Pragmatic Imagination

6. Claude Brown (1937–2002) – Going to the Promised Land

7. Morris Raphael Cohen (1880–1947) – End of the Classical Liberal Tradition

8. James S. Coleman (1926–1995) – Chance, Choice, and Civility

9. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – Revisiting the Legacy of Atlanta Sociology

10. Daniel J. Elazar (1934–1999) – The Covenant Tradition in Politics

11. Hans J. Eysenck (1916–1997) – The Liberality of a Social Psychologist

12. Lewis S. Feuer (1912–2002) – The Unitary Character of Extremist Ideologies

13. Ronald Fletcher (1921–1992) – Defending Scientific Psychology

14. Gino Germani (1911–1979) – Sociologist from the Other America

15. Eli Ginzberg (1911–2002) – The Economist as a Public Intellectual

16. César Graña (1919–1986) – The Culture of Sociology and Sociology of Culture

17. Scott Greer (1922–1996) – The Dialectic of the Unique and the Universal

18. Mason W. Gross (1911–1977) – Philosophy, Science and the Higher Learning

19. George Caspar Homans (1910–1989) – Bringing the Individual Back into a Collective Discipline

20. Laud Humphreys (1932–1988) – A Pioneer in the Practice of Fugitive Social Science

21. Jeremiah Kaplan (1926–1993) – The Publisher as Social Vanguard

22. Russell Kirk (1918–1994) – Revolutionary of the Past

23. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926– ) – Legitimacy, Force and Morality

24. Milton Konvitz (1908– ) – The Moral Bases of Legal Theory

25. Walter Laqueur (1921– ) – Tribune of Political Theory

26. Melvin J. Lasky (1920– ) – An American Voice of the European Conscience

27. Harold Lasswell (1902–1978) – Garrison States and Good Societies

28. Peter Lengyel (1927–1996) – The Anti-Bureaucratic Bureaucrat

29. Max Lerner (1902–1992) – Journalist as Political Educator

30. Marion J. Levy, Jr. (1918–2002) – Modernizing International Relations

31. Seymour Martin Lipset (1941– ) – The Social Uses of Anomaly

32. Robert S. Lynd (1892–1970) and Helen Merrell Lynd (1894–1981) – The Sociological Couple Par Excellence

33. Joseph B. Maier (1911–2003) – Tradition, Modernity and the Last Hurrah of the “Frankfurt School”

34. John D. Martz (1934–1998) – North American Latin Americanist

35. Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) – Passionate Professional

36. C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) – Sociologist of American Stratification

37. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) – The Last Hurrah of Liberal Sociology

38. Robert A. Nisbet (1913–1996) – The Radical Conservative

39. David Riesman (1909–2002) – Educating the Middle Class

40. Arnold M. Rose (1918–1968) – The Power Structure vs. the Power Elite

41. R.J. Rummel (1932– ) – Death by Government

42. Peter Shaw (1936–1995) – The Political Vision of a Literary Scholar

43. Kalman H. Silvert (1921–1976) – Democracy as Human Rights

44. John Stanley (1937–1998) – Historian of Political Ideas

45. Anselm Strauss (1916–1996) – Democratizing Social Psychology

46. Thomas Szasz (1920– ) – The Politics of Psychiatry and the Ethics of a Psychiatrist

47. Jacob L. Talmon (1916–1980) – The Social Vision of Intellectual History

48. Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) – Elitist as Populist

49. Aaron Wildavsky (1930–1993) – Facts, Policies, Morals

50. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) and Karl Popper (1902–1994) – Poker Players

51. Kurt H. Wolff (1912– ) – His Phenomenal World

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