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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493182403321

Autore

Kimmerling Baruch

Titolo

Marginal at the center : the life story of a public sociologist / / Baruch Kimmerling ; translated by Diana Kimmerling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2012

ISBN

0-85745-751-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

305.8924

Soggetti

Sociologists - Israel

Sociology - Israel

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

And this is the story -- Campus -- The struggle over the paradigm -- Entering the public arena.

Sommario/riassunto

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