..". a welcome and scholarly contribution to Political Science
reference collections and reading lists."--"The Bookwatch"
All of the essays included in the present volume were written
between 1995 and 2001. This attests to the timeliness and relevance
of Dennis H. Wrong's writings. He notes that the
mid-twentieth-century disposition to believe that politics
fundamentally consisted of clashes between totalistic worldviews,
such as communism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, nationalism,
internationalism, and a cluster of "isms," may have been
historically transitional. But politics now appears more nuanced,
if no less troubled, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc
between 1989 and 1991. Multiculturalism and identity politics, as
well as communitarianism flourished in the 1990s.
The volume is divided into five parts: "Capitalism--Inequalities
and Alternatives," "Multiculturalism and Identity Politics,"
"Communitarianism," "Theory and Theorists," and "Autobiographical
Reminiscences." This concluding part indicates how Wrong's work
includes self-reflections as well as reflections--an examination of
how figures such as C. Wright Mills and Raymond Aron, Amitai
Etzioni, and Digby Baltzell, played a role in shaping his own
thought, and how these changed over the course of the past century.
This is the third collection of the essays and articles of Dennis
H. Wrong published by Transaction. As was the case with his earlier
volumes, "Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era" is
characterized by a deep attention to the actual social history of
our times, and how this plays out in academic pursuits--especially
within sociology. Whether the works were published in academic
journals or more popular media, they reflect a quality of literary
manners that is rare among social science writings, but a
reflection that never sacrifices a sense of principle and probity
in the process.
Dennis H. Wrong is the author of several books, including two
essay collections containing articles first published in cultural
intellectual, political and scholarly journals in the United
States, Canada, and Britain--several of which he has served as an
editor or editor-in-chief. He has taught sociology at Princeton,
Rutgers, Brown, the University of Toronto, the New School for
Social Research Graduate Faculty, and for most of his career at New
York University. He is currently retired and lives in Princeton.
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