Culture and Civilization

Volume 1, 2009
Herausgeber: Horowitz, Irving

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• 2009 edition
• Seitenzahl: 347
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781412810654
• ISBN-10: 1412810655
• Artikelnr.: 26439502

Autorenporträt

Irving Horowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Nations
1. Show Trials and the Ritual Purifi cation of Hypermodernity -Katherine
Hirschfeld
2. Postmodernism and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History -Keith
Windschuttle
3. The Darfur Genocide of Black African Women -Samuel Totten
4. How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic -Michael Novak
II. Sciences
5. The Strange Career of Political Sociology in America -Howard G.
Schneiderman
6. Sociology and Classical Liberalism -Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern
7. Crime, Criminals and Guns -James D. Wright and Nicholas E. Libby
8. Progressions of Belief in Global Warming -Michael Crichton
III. Technologies
9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy -Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
10. Scholarly Publishing in 1929 and 2009 -Irving Louis Horowitz
11. Feminism, Freedom and History -Christina Hoff Sommers
12. The Strategic Use of Holocaust Denial -George Michael
IV. Intellectuals
13. Heroic Statesmen -Paul Johnson
14. Classical Greek Origins of Modern French Thought -Athena Leoussi
15. Harold Laski on The State -Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.
16. T.S. Eliot's Metaphysics -Peter Milward
Acknowledgments