Gad Horowitz
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Born | 1936 (age 87–88) Political theory |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
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Gad Horowitz (born 1936) is a Canadian
Biography
Horowitz was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated to Canada with his parents[
Horowitz earned his
Horowitz has specialized in labour theory, and most notably coined the appellation
Horowitz was a member of the editorial board of Canadian Dimension in its early days, and a frequent contributor to that magazine.[10]
Horowitz teaches a class at the University of Toronto entitled The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship which revolves around general semantics, a non-Aristotelian educational discipline first theorized by Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski. A 21-part video series called 'Radical General Semantics' has been made of his lectures.
Selected bibliography
- Horowitz, Gad (1966). Creative politics. Mosaics & identity.
- Horowitz, Gad (1966). Mosaics & identity.
- Canadian Nationalism: Articles on foreign ownership, international trade unionism, sports media, Americanization of the universities, and more. Canadian Dimension.
- Canadian Labour in Politics. University of Toronto Press. 1968.
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- Repression: Basic and surplus repression in psychoanalytic theory: Freud, Reich, and Marcuse. University of Toronto Press. 1977. ISBN 0-8020-5379-3.
- "Everywhere they are in chains": Political theory from Rousseau to Marx. Nelson Canada. 1988. ISBN 0-17-603412-9.
- Difficult justice: Commentaries on Levinas and politics. University of Toronto Press. January 2006. ISBN 0-8020-8009-X. (with Asher Horowitz)
- Horowitz, Gad (2016). The Book of Radical General Semantics. Pencraft International. p. 260. ISBN 978-9382178170.
Articles
- Horowitz, G. (1966). "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 32 (1): 143–71. JSTOR 139794.
- "Global Pardon: Pax Romana, Pax Americana, and Kol Nidre". Bad Subjects. December 2001. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
References
Citations
- ^ Wiseman 2013, p. 21.
- ^ a b c d Block, Irwin (10 October 2013). "Horowitz Has Made a Career of Challenging Prevailing Notions". The Senior Times. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ Wiseman 2013, p. 20.
- ^ Andrew 2013, p. 48.
- ^ a b c Campbell 2003.
- ^ Wiseman 2013, p. 22.
- ^ Campbell 2003; Horowitz 1959.
- ^ Horowitz 1965.
- ^ Forbes 2007, p. 235; Leuprecht 2003; Smiley 1981, p. 150.
- ^ Brett, Matthew (12 June 2008). "Gad Horowitz: Canadian Intellectual". Canadian Dimension. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
Works cited
- Andrew, Edward G. (2013). "The Odd Couple of Canadian Intellectual History". In ISBN 978-1-4426-4532-5.
- Campbell, Colin (2003). "On Intellectual Life, Politics and Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Gad Horowitz". Ctheory. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- Forbes, Hugh Donald (2007). George Grant: A Guide to His Thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8142-1.
- Horowitz, Gad (1959). Mosca and Mills: Ruling Class and Power Elite (MA thesis). Montreal: McGill University. OCLC 820538864. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ——— (1965). Canadian Labor in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937–62 (PhD thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 76987033.
- Leuprecht, Christian (2003). "The Tory Fragment in Canada: Endangered Species?". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 36 (2): 401–416. SSRN 1279533.
- Smiley, Donald V. (1981). "Review of The Tory Syndrome: Leadership Politics in the Progressive Conservative Party, by George C. Perlin". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 14 (1): 148–150. S2CID 154386721.
- Wiseman, Nelson (2013). "The Life and Times of Horowitz the Canadianist". In ISBN 978-1-4426-4532-5.