Norman Birnbaum

Norman Birnbaum ( born July 21, 1926 in New York City, New York ) is an American sociologist and publicist.

Life

The son of Polish immigrants earned his doctorate in sociology at Harvard University. He is an emeritus professor of politics at the Law Center of the Washington Georgetown University. Birnbaum lectured continue at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Oxford, the University of Strasbourg and the Amherst College. Other academic appointments, there were in Germany, France and Italy.

He was a consultant of Robert and Edward Kennedy, the National Security Council of the United States, the United Auto Workers and the German Greens, supported the presidential campaigns of Kennedy, Jackson, Carter and Cranston and was a founding member of the Campaign for America's Future.

Birnbaum was President of the Policy Advisory Council of the New Democratic Coalition.

He was co-founder of the New Left Review, was on the editorial board of Partisan Review and in this case The Nation. Birnbaum is also co-editor of the political- scientific monthly magazine Sheets for German and international politics.

Work

  • The crisis of industrial society, 1969
  • Toward a critical sociology, 1971
  • Social Structure and the German Reformation, 1980
  • The Radical Renewal: The Politics of Ideas in Modern America, 1988
  • Searching for the Light: Essays on Thought and Culture, 1993
  • After Progress, 2000

German translations

  • The crisis of industrial society, 1972
  • After the progress. Penultimate comments to Socialism, 2003

Newspaper articles (selection)

  • A superfluous advice Open letter from Washington to the Federal Chancellor. In: Time No. 15, April 3, 1992.
  • About the conflict between capitalism and democracy. Civil society needs self-conscious citizens, not autocratic elites. In: The Time # 44, October 24, 1997.
  • God is an American. Gore, Bush and the question of religion. In: SZ, October 31, 2000.
  • Deep in the memory hole. The U.S. hegemonic project. In: SZ, 9 October 2002.
  • Our democracy loses face (PDF, 48 kB). At America's values, the world should recover. But first, the nation has to find these values ​​in the crisis. In: The Time No 45, November 3, 2005.
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