Marginal At The Center : the Life Story of a Public Sociologist.
A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, a prolific writer, and a "public" sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved as both a scientist and a concerned citizen, he nevertheless felt marginal b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, a prolific writer, and a "public" sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved as both a scientist and a concerned citizen, he nevertheless felt marginal because of his unconventional worldview, his empathy for the oppressed, and his exceptional sense of universal justice, which were at odds with prevailing views. In this autobiography, the author, who was born in Transylvania in 1939 with cerebral palsy, describes how he and his family escaped the Nazis and t |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780857457516 0857457519 9780857457202 0857457209 |