The Torment Of Secrecy
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Author | : Edward Shils |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1461720605 |
Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation—by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators—so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils's examination of a recurring American characteristic is as timely as ever. "Brief...lucid... brilliant."—American Political Science Review. "A fine, sophisticated analysis of American social metabolism."—New Republic. "An excitingly lucid and intelligent work on a subject of staggering importance...the social preconditions of political democracy."—Social Forces.
Author | : Edward Shils |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Edward Albert Shils |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Edward Shils |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
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Author | : Edward Shils |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 156663105X |
Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy". Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever.
Author | : Edward Albert Shils |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Hugh Nibley |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Edward Shils |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Susan Maret |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-01-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 085724390X |
Divided into six sections, this title examines Government secrecy (GS) in a variety of contexts, including comparative examination of government control of information, new definitions, categories, censorship, ethics, and secrecy's relationship with freedom of information and transparency.
Author | : Edward Shils |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412809126 |
Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995 and never before published, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal Minerva, being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of the editorial board of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and being a member of the International Council on the Future of the University. Shils recognizes that a unity of concern runs through his many theoretical writings and activities. Early in his life the concern was expressed as understanding the character of consensus. During the last fifteen years of his life, he refined his understanding of consensus through investigation of the nature of "collective self-consciousness." That concern was the structure and character of the moral order of a society, and, in particular, liberal, democratic society. Accompanying the autobiography are two unpublished essays, "Society, Collective Self-Consciousness and Collective Self-Consciousnesses" and "Collective Self-Consciousness and Rational Choice," two areas of intellectual concern discussed in the autobiography. The book contains fascinating discussion of many of the people Shils knew throughout his illustrious career: Robert Park, Louis Wirth, Talcott Parsons, Karl Mannheim, Michael Polanyi, Audrey Richards, Karl Popper, Robert Merton, and many others. The volume represents Shils' final formulations on the character of society and its moral order. As such, it is a most important contribution both to the history of the social sciences in the twentieth century and to sociological theory.