C. Wright Mills
Naison, Mark
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...When I decided to attend Columbia during the early 1960's, one of the attractions of the place was that C. Wright Mills hadtaught there...
...His analysis of the intellectual milieu which shaped Mills's development, and his discussion of American intellectual life in the 1950s is nothing short of brilliant...
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...This book makes fascinating reading, though its Epilogue hides behind the claim of making an "historical reconstruction" and does not speak to the religious and theological questions that the named Demetrios from 3 Jn...
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...The gospel of those who first preached about Jesus also turns out to be quite diverse...
...The Cuba which Mills saw as a new model of humanistic socialism, in Horowitz's view turned out to be little more than a grubby totalitarian dictatorship "utterly dependent on Soviet aid...
...Committed to challenging dogma and cant, whether in the name of orthodox Marxism or Parsonian functionalism, Mills struggled to create a world view in which ethical considerations were front and center, "in which thepretensions of the powerful were exposed to critical scrutiny...
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...Horowitz describes one side of the Mills which attracted me, the critic of mainstream sociology, with empathy and precision...
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...His most important theoretical work, The Sociological Imagination, "helped make possible the penetration of a field by a new generation of social scientists dedicated to problems of social change, rather than system maintenance...
...But what is ultimately objectionable to Horowitz is that Mills bet on the wrong horse...
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...That gospel was able to counter the gospel of Demetrios by taking up the Beloved Disciple's proclamation of Jesus as the unique Son of God...
...His trilogy of empirical works, White Collar, and Power Elite, and New Men of Power, helped popularize sociology as a discipline capable of illuminating hidden trends in modem American society, while shattering complacency about the perfectibility of American democracy...
...Instead, it found freedom from the restraints of traditional righteousness in a message of Truth that existed in the community...
...And his book, The Marxists, a seminal effort to rescue Marxism from dogmatism, presaged Eurocommunism in its willingness to subject Marxism to the claims of moral agency and reconcile it with liberal pluralism...
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...Mark gaison I RVING LOUIS HOROWlTZ'S C. Wright Mills, An American Utopian is a fascinating intellectual biography plagued by a deep ambivalence about Mills's political activism...
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...Can his theoretical legacy be so neatly integrated into a skeptical liberalism (or embittered neoconserm i , l l l - - _ _ REVIEWERS JOHN RATTE is Headmaster of the LoomisChaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut...
...A figure distinguished by profound political passions and moral fervor becomes, in Horowitz's hands, safe and sanitized, a pioneer as a sociologist, but a man whose political interventions were unworthy of his intellect...
...9 options to the arms race and nuclear war...
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...Jewish Christians, on the other hand, sought continuity with the past in a new perception of the Law understood after the coming of the Messiah...
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...Salvation is found through knowledge of that truth...
...His example not Commonweal: 250 only gave legitimacy to critical scrutiny of American institutions (at a time when "consensus" ruled the intellectual roost), but endowed direct action, whether in the peace or civil rights movements, With moral and intellectual grandeur...
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...From a scholarly viewpoint, the trickiest part of Meagher's book is on the fourth Gospel, and the implications of an obscure figure the Gospel of the apostles to focus on Jesus as mediator of salvation...
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...That Mills' s defense of the Cuban revolution, coming at a time when an American-sponsored invasion of the island seemed imminent, might project a different persona than a sociological work is hardly surprising...
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...Horowitz's summaries of Mills's works, his exploration of his troubled relationship with prominent colleagues (he makes wonderful use of Mills's correspondence with Richard Hofstadter and Lionel Trilling), and his evaluation of Mills's theoretical contribution to social science are all major contributions to the intellectual history of the postwar period...
...Politics became highly per~ sonalized...
...But when Horowitz, in his concluding chapters, seeks to deal with Mills the advocate, something is lost...
...Surrounded by colleagues Who celebrated the end of ideology and made civility a religion, Mills sought to rejuvenate sociology as something "serviceable to radical a i m s . . , or at least capable of triumph...
...He is the Paraclete, not merely the source of the Paraclete...
...U I III III _9 I I Populism, pragmatism, & activism C. WRIGHT MILLS, AM AMERICAN UTOPIAN Irving Louis Horowitz The Free Press, $24.95, 341 pp...
...God's unqualified love and mercy contains a demand within it to reject our versions of righteousness, which are conveniently cut down to human size and possibilities...
...Horowitz, a scholar of monumental thoroughness examines Mills's personal life, relations with colleagues, and the evolution of his sociological work with great subtlety and skill...
...He even hints that all who have sought righteousness may enter the Dominion of God, though the Pharisees may suffer the considerable "humiliation" of being "least" there...
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...In Cuba, Mills's sense of a revolutionary movement unencumbered by Stalinism was fulfilled as were his own sense of self-importance and larger than life needs...
...He is the author of Hegel on Reason and History...
...For those, like Paul, who turned to the Greek-speaking Gentiles the message of Jesus as messiah proclaimeff freedom from the Law and thus shattered the boundaries of the chosen people...
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...He examines how Mills, a Texan shaped by "populism and pragmatism" found himself an outsider at Columbia in the fifties, an institution that "saw itself as a veritable enclave of civilization amidst a sea of barbarism...
...For Horowitz, Mills reintroduced moral and political passion to social science at a time when passivity and academic distance were the most approved stances...
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...To Horowitz, Mills, more than any other modern thinker set forth usable standards for the "sociological imagination...
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...His goal, as Horowitz ably asserts, was "to engage in a politics of truth on the part of the powerless...
...Jesus never presumes upon God's judgment...
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...PHEME PERKINS i$ a professor of theology at Boston College...
...To me, Mills represented the quintessence of the politically engaged intellectual, someone who presented critical analyses of American society in commonsense language and who was unafraid to take unpopular stances on issues like disarmament and the Cuban Revolution...
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...Horowitz criticizes Listen Yankee, Mills's best-selling book on the Cuban revolution, for betraying the skeptical stance that distinguished his sociological work...
...My negative reactions to the last parts of this book stem partially from my own political biography...
...But Horowitz's one chapter on Mills' s activism, "The Causes of C. Wright Mills" lacks the subtlety or empathy of his chapters on Mills the social scientist...
...He began identifying himself with world history and not just social reform...
...9 future possibilities.for the US church...
...Can Mills's political activism be so neatly separated from his contribution to social science...
...He saw himself as an actor in, and not just a writer of, great events...
...and Martin Marty and respondents on the Recovery of Tradition in Religion Today...
...Regarding the Cuban revolution as " b a n k r u p t , " Horowitz sees Mills's extravagant hopes for it as projections of egotism gone mad...
...The effect of these passages, coming after a deeply respectful treatment of Mills the sociologist, is confusing to the reader...
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...Flawed in his personal life, torn between his populist hopes for the downtrodden and an elitist conception of the intellectual's role, he made a major contribution to seeing the modern world more clearly...
...Personal and objective factors became desperately, even dangerously intertwined...
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