Social Research articles from June 1994

Social Research archives from June 1994

A disquisition on civil society.
June 22, 1994... THOSE OF US who are not utopian planners must concentrate our attention on tyranny, injustice, and disorder. A critical investigation of politics ought to detect the next disaster, point to perilous temptations; it should not be afraid of being...

E.P. Thompson and the discipline of historical context.
June 22, 1994... THE great English historian E. P. Thompson died this past year. Arguably the most important founder of "the new social history," he was a transformative influence on and an inspiration for two generations of historians. His work held up to...

The mind and faith of Max Lerner.
June 22, 1994... MAX LERNER joined the editorial board of the New York newspaper PM in the early 1940s after two decades spent mostly in academic life. Within a few years, he was a famous political pundit. His editorials attracted a legion of loyal followers...

The time of states.
June 22, 1994... BORN IN 1921, my late friend and collaborator Stein Rokkan died in 1979, well before his time, and well before his wide-ranging view of political processes could take the hold it merited in comparative politics and macrosociology. Rokkan was a...

Thinking beyond the East-West divide: Foucault, Patocka, and the care of the self. (Michel Foucault, Jan Patocka)
June 22, 1994... Introduction FOR decades now, Foucault's work has elicited all sorts of controversy. This controversy, however, contains one constant element shared by all participants--they all focus on the books written in the 1970's, the works which...

Structural and institutional aspects of corruption.
June 22, 1994... Introduction In recent months, corruption in high places has been prominently featured in the international press. Perhaps the two most striking aspects of this news coverage are these: first, attention is heavily concentrated not on...

Women after communism: a bitter freedom.
June 22, 1994... "UNTIL RECENTLY I never divided issues into male and female issues. Now I am noticing that actual women's rights in Poland are being threatened. So women's issues have faced me right here on our own front doorstep, and not just slipped in...

The free trade debate: a left Keynesian gaze.
June 22, 1994... FOLLOWING the intense debate and ultimate passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it has now emerged that the question of globalized free trade has become one of the principal issues on the economic policy agenda. Rather...

Poland's seven middle classes.
June 22, 1994... Great Confusion THE "middle class" has become a positive hero of public discourse in the Third Republic. A few dozen years ago, this title was pejorative. The middle classes carried the negative Marxist view that something which was...

The twisted road to genocide: on the psychological development of evil during the Holocaust.
June 22, 1994... A Moment of Self-Discovery We all recall Simone de Beauvoir's opening lines in The Second Sex: "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman... it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature..." (de Beauvoir, 1989, p. 267)....

Freud and his nephew. (Sigmund Freud)
June 22, 1994... IN THE 1960s, with the political order under challenge and many announcing the beginning of a new age, I remember hearing something about Freud's acceptance of the bitter truths of necessity. It occurs to me now that the tragic reconciliation I...

Judith Shklar's dystopic liberalism.
June 22, 1994... RUNNING like a red thread through Judith Shklar's life-work is a "dystopic" vision of liberalism; a liberalism which is not only anti-utopian but self-consciously dystopian. One of the earliest statements of this vision is contained in...