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Marginal At the Center - The Life Story of a Public Sociologist (Paperback)
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Marginal At the Center - The Life Story of a Public Sociologist (Paperback)
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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 the circumstances that brought them to Israel, the
development of his understanding of Israeli and Palestinian
histories, of the narratives each society tells itself, and of the
implacable "situation"-along with predictions of some of the most
disturbing developments that are taking place right now as well as
solutions he hoped were still possible. Kimmerling's deep concern
for Israel's well-being, peace, and success also reveals that he
was in effect a devoted Zionist, contrary to the claims of his
detractors. He dreamed of a genuinely democratic Israel, a country
able to embrace all of its citizens without discrimination and to
adopt peace as its most important objective. It is to this dream
that this posthumous translation from Hebrew has been dedicated.
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