The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies - Softcover

Shils, Edward

 
9781566631051: The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 156663105X ISBN 13: 9781566631051
Verlag: Ivan R. Dee, 1996

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Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation? by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators? so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils's examination of a recurring American characteristic is as timely as ever. "Brief. . . lucid. . . brilliant."? American Political Science Review. "A fine, sophisticated analysis of American social metabolism."? New Republic. "An excitingly lucid and intelligent work on a subject of staggering importance. . . the social preconditions of political democracy."? Social Forces.

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Edward A. Shils was distinguished service professor of sociology at the University of Chicago until his death in 1995. He founded the journal Minerva and co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and was widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential social thinkers.

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Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy". Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever.

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Verlag
Ivan R. Dee
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
156663105X
ISBN 13 
9781566631051
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
262
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