The Contradictions of Contemporary Culture: A Tribute to Norman Jay Levitt (1943-2009)

Autor/in	Gross, Paul R.
Titel	The Contradictions of Contemporary Culture: A Tribute to Norman Jay Levitt (1943-2009)
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 25 (2012) 1, S.153-157 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-011-9262-7
Schlagwörter	Sciences; Political Attitudes; Sociology; Political Issues; Politics; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Science; Wissenschaft; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Soziologie; Politischer Faktor; Politik; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	Norman Jay Levitt was the author's good friend, collaborator, and co-author. He was--above, before, and after politics--an honest inquirer. His socio-cultural views evolved continuously. Levitt, truth-seeker and liberal, was impatient with, and a devastating critic of, the political correctness and--even worse--the philosophic triviality that seemed to have overcome the academic Left and indeed much of the academy post-Vietnam. In this tribute, the author lauds the intellectual energy of the man with whom he co-authored the seminal expose of the infestation of science by political correctness: "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science." (Contains 10 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10