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Marginal at the center : the life story of a public sociologist / Baruch Kimmerling ; translated by Diana Kimmerling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kimmerling, Baruch, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Shuli ba-merkaz. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kimmerling, Baruch.
- Sociologists--Israel--Biography.
- Sociologists.
- Sociology--Israel.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- And this is the story
- Campus
- The struggle over the paradigm
- Entering the public arena.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857457516
- 0857457519
- OCLC:
- 871775353
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