Desolation and Enlightenment (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780231111942
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Political science & theory; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; History & Theory - General; Political; Sociology - Social Theory; Political Science / History & Theory; Social Psychology; Sociology - General; Human behavior; Philosophy; Political psychology; Political science; Political sociology
First sentence: At the University of Chicago celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its Social Science Research Building in November 1955, Harold Lasswell concluded his remarks by reflecting on the role of social scientists "in the social process," which he summarized as that of "reconstructing our institutions of enlightenment."