Social Research articles from December 1994

Social Research archives from December 1994

Some questions of moral philosophy. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... After the publication, in 1963, of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt's attention became focused on moral and ethical questions. On February 10, 1965, at the New School for Social Research, she...

Arendt and individualism. (Hannah Arendt) (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... The recent publication of hitherto unpublished writings by Hannah Arendt must have some effect on how we understand her contribution to political theory. Out of a large archive some of the specimens that have been published have the power, in...

Reflections on how to study and understand the human being. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... Creative minds are hungary for significant problems. It is this hunger which, with its own force, drove Leon Festinger towards new horizons in research. He was, one should say, magnetically attracted to those problems which, even though no longer...

Philosophy at the end of the century: a survey of its past and future. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... My task is to speak to you about philosophy in this century and on the threshold of the next. I do not intend to speak here about Philosophy with a capital P, for it is doubtful whether such an identifiable entity exists. just compare it with the...

Rethinking responsibility. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... When Hans Jonas published a collection of his philosophic essays in 1974, he introduced the essays by reflecting upon his intellectual and biographical history. He tells us that "the latter aspect cannot be avoided, as it tinges the former with...

Hans Morgenthau, realism, and the study of international politics. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... Political science is a very trendy discipline. Few books or articles are cited a decade, let alone a generation, after they are written. When scholars die, their ideas often die with them, although they may be reinvented later and trumpeted as...

Leo Strauss peregrinus. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... The foreigner allows you to be yourself by making a foreigner of you. Edmond Jabes MORE PERHAPS than ever before, the stranger, the alien, the displaced or exiled stands today in the forefront of both theoretical and political...

The legacy of Max Wertheimer and gestalt psychology. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
December 22, 1994... In 1946, Solomon Asch wrote that the "thinking of Max Wertheimer has penetrated into nearly every region of psychological inquiry and has left a permanent impress on the minds of psychologists and on their daily work. The consequences have been...

The unity of Aron Gurwitsch's philosophy. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past)
December 22, 1994... Aron Gurwitsch worked in various fields, Husserlian phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, philosophy of science, and with at least two historical figures, Leibniz and Kant. Underlying all these, lending unity to his philosophical concerns, is a...

"From tribal brotherhood to universal otherhood": on Benjamin Nelson. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past)
December 22, 1994... From his early 20s to his late 30s (from approximately 1931 to 1949), Ben's scholarly topic was usury. The first result of his investigation was his master's thesis, "Robert de Curzon's Campaign Against Usury." He concluded these years with...