Politics, personality, and social science in the twentieth century
Subtitle: essays in honor of Harold D. Lasswell.
By: Edited by Arnold A. Rogow.
Contributors: Lasswell, Harold Dwight, 1902-; Rogow, Arnold A., ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Lasswell, Harold Dwight, 1902-; Social sciences -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Political psychology -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Description: Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law, anthropology, and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays, many of whom are former students or collaborators, view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Harold Lasswell: a memoir, by L. Rosten.; title: The maddening methods of Harold D. Lasswell: some philosophical underpinnings, by H. Eulau.; title: The mystifying intellectual history of Harold D. Lasswell, by B. L. Smith.; title: Psychoanalysis and the study of autonomic behavior, by R. R. Grinker, Sr.; title: Toward a psychiatry of politics, by A. A. Rogow.; title: The study of political processes in psychiatric illness and treatment, by R. Rubenstein.; title: Content analysis and the study of the "symbolic environment", by M. Janowitz.; title: Managing communication for modernization: a developmental construct, by D. Lerner.; title: Content analysis and the intelligence function, by I. des. Pool.; title: Scientific heroism from a standpoint within social psychology, by A. J. Brodbeck.; title: Dynamic functionalism, by A. R. Holmberg.; title: Reflections on deference, by E. Shils.; title: Some quantitative constraints on value allocation in society and politics, by K. W. Deutsch.; title: Harold D. Lasswell and the study of world politics: configurative analysis, garrison state, and world commonwealth, by W. T. R. Fox.; title: Legal education for a free society: our collective responsibility, by M. S. McDougal.; title: Bibliography of works by Harold D. Lasswell, compiled by J. Gaston (p. 407-443)