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Baruch Kimmerling - Marginal At the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist - 9780857457202 - V9780857457202
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Marginal At the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist

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Description for Marginal At the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist Paperback. A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, prolific writer, and "public" sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved both as a scientist and a concerned citizen, at the same time, he felt marginal in it because his unconventional worldview.. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 ills. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSR1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 374. A Guerilla Fighter for Ideas: the Life Story of a Public Sociologist. 280 pages, 13 ills. A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, prolific writer, and "public" sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved both as a scientist and a concerned citizen, at the same time, he felt marginal in it because his unconventional worldview. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSR1; JHB. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight: 378.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857457202
SKU
V9780857457202
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About Baruch Kimmerling
Baruch Kimmerling was Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His many publications include The Invention and Decline of Israeliness (University of California Press, 2001); A History of the Palestinian People (with Joel S. Migdal, Harvard University Press, 2003); and Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Reviews for Marginal At the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist
“What a wonderful read Baruch Kimmerling’s memoir is! [it takes] us from Kimmerling’s childhood in Romania, including his dramatic escape in 1944 on a horse-drawn carriage dodging a roundup of Jews in his hometown, to his final months in Jerusalem. His account, expertly translated by his wife Diana, is not a chronological story but one in which personal vignettes serve ... Read more

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