num_pages: 251
description: Irving Louis Horowitz is one of the leading figures in political sociology co-founder and long-time publisher of Society/Transaction , the most significant social science periodical, as well as publisher of Transaction Books, a successful social science book publisher. This book is theculmination of his many years of theoretical and practical experience with the problems of scholarly publishing.Among the specific subjects the book deals with are the new technology, notably computers, and their impact on the scholarly community, the relation of fair use and property rights to this technology, and democratic values and constitutional rights in this context. The book also covers thesocial context of scholarly publishing, including the changing reading public, the role of social scientists, the global politics of publishing, and the future of publishing.Horowitz is concerned about moving beyond two prevailing, and opposing tendencies. The first is an excessive pragmatism in the publishing world, with too much attention focused on profit margins and the "botton line." the other tendency is the intellectualization of scholarly publishing, anapproach that denigrates all aspects of publishing other than editorial.About the Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. His many books include Three Worlds of Development, Beyond Empire and Revolution , and Ideology and Utopia in the United States .
language: English
title: Communicating Ideas: The Crisis of Publishing in a Post-Industrial Society
titlecomplete: Communicating Ideas: The Crisis of Publishing in a Post-Industrial Society
publisher: Oxford University Press