Marginal At the Center : : The Life Story of a Public Sociologist / / Baruch Kimmerling.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • A Guerilla Fighter for Ideas
  • Part One: And This Is the Story
  • 1. So That the Child Would Not Understand
  • 2. Fleeing
  • 3. Fantasies
  • 4. Ariel and Michael
  • 5. The Transylvania Was Not the Roslan
  • 6. The Library
  • Part Two: Campus
  • 7. At the Dormitories
  • 8. Adam
  • 9. My Body’s Betrayal
  • 10. Diana
  • Part Three: The Struggle over the Paradigm
  • 11. March 6, 1969
  • 12. The Department
  • 13. On Zionism
  • 14. Between Boston and Toronto
  • Part Four: Entering the Public Arena
  • 15. On One Hand and on the Other Hand
  • 16. Ancestors’ Sepulchers and Sons’ Graves
  • 17. About the Nuclear
  • 18. This Constitution is Prostitution
  • 19. The Mouse that Roared
  • 20. The Mini-State Option
  • 21. The Right to Resist the Occupation
  • 22. Kulturkampf
  • 23. Politicians
  • 24. Between Despair and Hope
  • In Lieu of a Conclusion: Question Marks
  • Selected Publications
  • Index