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Author Kimmerling, Baruch.

Title Marginal At The Center : the Life Story of a Public Sociologist.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
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Summary 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 t.
Contents And this is the story -- Campus -- The struggle over the paradigm -- Entering the public arena.
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Subject Kimmerling, Baruch.
Kimmerling, Baruch.
Sociologists -- Israel -- Biography.
Sociologists.
Israel.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Sociology -- Israel.
Sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780857457202
ISBN 9780857457516 (electronic book)
0857457519 (electronic book)
1306690641
9781306690645