Gad Horowitz ( born Gad Horowitz ; born in 1936 , Jerusalem ) - Canadian political scientist , Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto .
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Biography
Horowitz was born in Jerusalem. His parents immigrated to Canada when Gad was 2 years old. He lived and grew up in Calgary , Winnipeg and Montreal . [2]
He received a bachelor 's degree from the University of Manitoba , and a master's degree from McGill University in 1959, having defended a thesis entitled Mosca and Mills: Ruling Class and Power Elite. [2] [3] In 1965, he received a Ph.D. at Harvard University , having defended his thesis "Canadian Labor in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937-62", [4] , written under the guidance of Sam Beer. [2]
Horowitz specialized in labor theory. He is best known for first proposing the term “ Red Tories ”, applying Louis Harz’s Fragment Theory to Canadian political culture and ideological development in his article Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada: Interpretation (Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation in the Canadian Journal of Political Science , 32, 2 (1966): 143-71. [5] [6] [7] The use of the term makes a distinction between traditional Canadian Torism and the power elements of classical liberalism that began to emerge in the Conservative Party after World War II, but it is used in relation to conservative parties in other countries in which "Advocate the nationalization of industry, the welfare state and other institutions, which are considered as an expression of a national character, which is in conflict with" liberal "and" neoliberal "rejection government intervention in the economy.
Horowitz was a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Dimension left magazine and often wrote articles for him himself. [eight]
Horowitz teaches the special course “The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship” at the University of Toronto, which deals with general semantics — not Aristotle's educational discipline, first developed by the Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski .
Selected bibliography
- Creative politics. Mosaics & identity . - 1966.
- Mosaics & identity . - 1966.
- Canadian Nationalism: Articles, Internationalization, International Trade Unionism, Sports Media, Americanization . - Canadian Dimension.
- Canadian Labor in Politics . - University of Toronto Press, 1968.
- Repression: Basic and surplus repression in psychoanalytic theory: Freud, Reich, and Marcuse . - University of Toronto Press, 1977. - ISBN 0-8020-5379-3 .
- "Everywhere they are in chains": Political theory from Rousseau to Marx . - Nelson Canada, 1988. - ISBN 0-17-603412-9 .
- Difficult justice: Commentaries on Levinas and politics . - University of Toronto Press, January 2006. - ISBN 0-8020-8009-X . (with Asher Horowitz)
Articles
- Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation (Eng.) // Canadian Journal of Political Science : journal. - 1966. - Vol. 32 , no. 1 . - P. 143-171 . - DOI : 10.2307 / 139794 .
- Global Pardon: Pax Romana, Pax Americana, and Kol Nidre Neopr . Bad Subjects (December 2001). The appeal date is September 6, 2011.
Notes
- ↑ Record # 12342446p // General Catalog of the National Library of France
- 2 1 2 3 Campbell, Colin On Intellectual Life, Politics and Psychoanalysis: A conversation with Gad Horowitz . Ctheory (October 29, 2003). The appeal date is September 6, 2011.
- ↑ Mosca and Mills: Ruling class and power elite . - McGill University , 1959.
- ↑ Canadian labor in politics: The trade unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937-62 . - Harvard University , 1965.
- ↑ Forbes, Hugh Donald. George Grant: A guide to his thought . - University of Toronto Press, 2007. - P. 235. - ISBN 978-0-8020-4318-4 .
- ↑ Canadian Political Science Association. {{{title}}} (Neopr.) // Canadian Journal of Political Science . - University of Toronto Press, 1981. - T. 14 . - p . 150 .
- ↑ Leuprecht, Christian. The Tory Fragment in Canada: Endangered Species? (Neopr.) // Canadian Journal of Political Science . - 2003. - Vol. 36 , No. 2 . - p . 401-416 . - DOI : 10.1017 / s000842390377869x .
- ↑ Gad Horowitz: Canadian Intellectual . Canadian Dimension (June 12, 2008). The appeal date is September 6, 2011.