Persuasions and Prejudices

Persuasions and Prejudices
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 814
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ISBN-10 : 9781351499989
ISBN-13 : 135149998X
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Book Synopsis Persuasions and Prejudices by : Irving Horowitz

Download or read book Persuasions and Prejudices written by Irving Horowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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