Gad Horowitz
{{Short description|Canadian political scientist (born 1936)}}
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| thesis_year = 1965
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| doctoral_advisor = Samuel Beer
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| discipline = Political science
| sub_discipline = Political theory
| workplaces = University of Toronto
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Gad Horowitz (born 1936) is a Canadian political scientist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Biography
Horowitz was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated to Canada {{citation needed span |date=November 2018 |text=with his parents}} at the age of 2.{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}{{cite web |last=Block |first=Irwin |date=10 October 2013 |title=Horowitz Has Made a Career of Challenging Prevailing Notions |url=http://www.theseniortimes.com/gad-horowitzs-subversive-itinerary-of-societal-exploration/ |website=The Senior Times |access-date=10 November 2018}} His father Rabbi Aaron Horowitz, was a prominent member of the Jewish community and a key figure in founding Camp Massad in Canada. He grew up in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Montreal.{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}
Horowitz earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from United College.{{sfn|Wiseman|2013|p=22}} He earned his Master of Arts degree from McGill University in 1959, writing his thesis on Mosca and Mills: Ruling Class and Power Elite.{{sfnm |1a1=Campbell |1y=2003 |2a1=Horowitz |2y=1959}} He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University in 1965, writing his thesis on Canadian {{not a typo|Labor}} in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937–62,{{sfn|Horowitz|1965}} with Sam Beer as his advisor.{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}
Horowitz has specialized in labour theory, and most notably coined the appellation Red Tory in his application of Louis Hartz's fragment theory to Canadian political culture and ideological development, in his essay "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation" (in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, 32, 2 (1966): 143–71).{{sfnm |1a1=Forbes |1y=2007 |1p=235 |2a1=Leuprecht |2y=2003 |3a1=Smiley |3y=1981 |3p=150}} The use of this appellation differentiates traditional Canadian Toryism from the powerful classical liberal elements that began to emerge in the Conservative Party after the Second World War, but it has applications to conservative parties in other countries where "Tory" acceptance of state enterprises, the welfare state, and other institutions seen as expressions of national character conflicts with "liberal" or "neoliberal" rejection of state intervention in the economy.
Horowitz was a member of the editorial board of Canadian Dimension in its early days, and a frequent contributor to that magazine.{{cite web |last=Brett |first=Matthew |date=12 June 2008 |title=Gad Horowitz: Canadian Intellectual |url=https://canadiandimension.com/blog/view/gad-horowitz-canadian-intellectual |work=Canadian Dimension |location=Winnipeg, Manitoba |access-date=10 November 2018}}
Horowitz teaches a class at the University of Toronto entitled The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship which revolves around general semantics, a non-Aristotelian educational discipline first theorized by Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski. A 21-part video series called [http://www.radicalgeneralsemantics.net/%5B(r)GS%5D.html 'Radical General Semantics'] has been made of his lectures.
Selected bibliography
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkYBGwAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Creative politics. Mosaics & identity |year=1966|last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad }}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_EeNAAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Mosaics & identity |year=1966|last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad }}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDj-QwAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Canadian Nationalism: Articles on foreign ownership, international trade unionism, sports media, Americanization of the universities, and more |publisher=Canadian Dimension}}
- {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/canadianlabourin0000horo |url-access= registration |quote= gad horowitz. |title=Canadian Labour in Politics |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1968}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekx9AAAAMAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Repression: Basic and surplus repression in psychoanalytic theory: Freud, Reich, and Marcuse |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1977 |isbn= 0-8020-5379-3}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLstAAAAYAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title="Everywhere they are in chains": Political theory from Rousseau to Marx |year=1988 |publisher=Nelson Canada|isbn= 0-17-603412-9}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llUkSYlfn9EC&q=gad+horowitz |title=Difficult justice: Commentaries on Levinas and politics |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=January 2006 |isbn=0-8020-8009-X}} (with Asher Horowitz)
- {{cite book |last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad |title=The Book of Radical General Semantics |date=2016 |publisher=Pencraft International |isbn=978-9382178170 |pages=260}}
Articles
- {{cite journal| title=Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation |journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science |volume=32 |issue=1 |year=1966 |pages=143–71 |doi=10.2307/139794|jstor=139794 |last1=Horowitz |first1=G. }}
- {{cite web |url= http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/horowitz.html |title= Global Pardon: Pax Romana, Pax Americana, and Kol Nidre |publisher= Bad Subjects |date= December 2001 |access-date= 6 September 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927223521/http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/horowitz.html |archive-date= 27 September 2011 |url-status= dead }}
References
=Citations=
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=Works cited=
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- {{cite book
|last=Andrew
|first=Edward G.
|year=2013
|chapter=The Odd Couple of Canadian Intellectual History
|editor1-last=Bell
|editor1-first=Shannon
|editor1-link=Shannon Bell
|editor2-last=Kulchyski
|editor2-first=Peter
|title=Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|pages=42–53
|isbn=978-1-4426-4532-5
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Campbell
|first=Colin
|year=2003
|title=On Intellectual Life, Politics and Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Gad Horowitz
|url=http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397
|journal=CTheory
|access-date=6 September 2011
|archive-date=21 January 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121125918/http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397
|url-status=dead
}}
- {{cite book
|last=Forbes
|first=Hugh Donald
|year=2007
|title=George Grant: A Guide to His Thought
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|isbn=978-0-8020-8142-1
}}
- {{cite thesis
|last=Horowitz
|first=Gad
|year=1959
|title=Mosca and Mills: Ruling Class and Power Elite
|url=http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111784&silo_library=GEN01
|degree=MA
|location=Montreal
|publisher=McGill University
|oclc=820538864
|access-date=10 November 2018
}}
- {{cite thesis
|last=Horowitz
|first=Gad
|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=1965
|title=Canadian Labor in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937–62
|degree=PhD
|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
|publisher=Harvard University
|oclc=76987033
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Leuprecht
|first=Christian
|year=2003
|title=The Tory Fragment in Canada: Endangered Species?
|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science
|volume=36
|issue=2
|pages=401–416
|doi=10.1017/s000842390377869x
|ssrn=1279533
|s2cid=155032854
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Smiley
|first=Donald V.
|year=1981
|title=Review of The Tory Syndrome: Leadership Politics in the Progressive Conservative Party, by George C. Perlin
|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science
|volume=14
|issue=1
|pages=148–150
|jstor=3230399
|issn=1744-9324
|doi=10.1017/S000842390003540X
|s2cid=154386721
}}
- {{cite book
|last=Wiseman
|first=Nelson
|year=2013
|chapter=The Life and Times of Horowitz the Canadianist
|editor1-last=Bell
|editor1-first=Shannon
|editor1-link=Shannon Bell
|editor2-last=Kulchyski
|editor2-first=Peter
|title=Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|pages=15–41
|isbn=978-1-4426-4532-5
}}
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External links
- {{YouTube|4p9fHdjg_hQ|"Berlin Dharma: Interview with Canadian intellectual Gad Horowitz" (video)}}
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