Present as History; Past as Prologue; Future as Memory; Toward a General Theory of State-Sponsored Crime; Studying Genocide.
Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University of New Jersey. He is the author of a variety of books, including War and Peace in Contemporary Social and Philosophical Theory, Radicalism and the Revolt against Reason, and most recently, Behemoth: The Theory and History of Political Sociology.
-Outstanding Title! Horowitz has significantly expanded and
thoroughly revised this fourth edition of his classic study of
genocide. Since its first publication (Genocide: State Power and
Mass Murder, 1976), Taking Lives has been regarded as a pivotal
attempt to analyze the sociopolitical context of mass murder. It
asserts that genocide is not a random event or necessarily linked
to social conditions... Among the mass killings analyzed are the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and
Yugoslavia... Imperative for students of genocide, comparative
ethnic politics and human rights, and anyone concerned with the
most fundamental moral issue of our time.- --R. H. Dekmejian,
Choice -Taking Lives leaves no stone unturned in its thorough
analysis....[It] is a critical, scholary reference not to be
overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as
it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easy the
state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder.-
--Wisconsin Bookwatch -Horowitz alerts us to a key question
concerning sociological death, well within the tradition of
Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, and Mills.- --George Hillery -Horowitz
has located the paramount feature that distinguishes one society
from another. No one can evade his challenge to judge a society by
the number of people it kills. Taking Lives is written with
literary grace by a brilliant scholar and committed moralist.-
--Charles C. Moskos -This book will long be read not in the
hackneyed sense of a 'social science classic' but because it will
continue to state the case so brilliantly and persuasively for a
human and creative democratic society.- --Anselm L. Strauss
"Outstanding Title! Horowitz has significantly expanded and
thoroughly revised this fourth edition of his classic study of
genocide. Since its first publication (Genocide: State Power and
Mass Murder, 1976), Taking Lives has been regarded as a pivotal
attempt to analyze the sociopolitical context of mass murder. It
asserts that genocide is not a random event or necessarily linked
to social conditions... Among the mass killings analyzed are the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and
Yugoslavia... Imperative for students of genocide, comparative
ethnic politics and human rights, and anyone concerned with the
most fundamental moral issue of our time." --R. H. Dekmejian,
Choice "Taking Lives leaves no stone unturned in its thorough
analysis....[It] is a critical, scholary reference not to be
overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as
it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easy the
state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder."
--Wisconsin Bookwatch "Horowitz alerts us to a key question
concerning sociological death, well within the tradition of
Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, and Mills." --George Hillery "Horowitz
has located the paramount feature that distinguishes one society
from another. No one can evade his challenge to judge a society by
the number of people it kills. Taking Lives is written with
literary grace by a brilliant scholar and committed moralist."
--Charles C. Moskos "This book will long be read not in the
hackneyed sense of a 'social science classic' but because it will
continue to state the case so brilliantly and persuasively for a
human and creative democratic society." --Anselm L. Strauss
"Outstanding Title! Horowitz has significantly expanded and
thoroughly revised this fourth edition of his classic study of
genocide. Since its first publication (Genocide: State Power and
Mass Murder, 1976), Taking Lives has been regarded as a pivotal
attempt to analyze the sociopolitical context of mass murder. It
asserts that genocide is not a random event or necessarily linked
to social conditions... Among the mass killings analyzed are the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and
Yugoslavia... Imperative for students of genocide, comparative
ethnic politics and human rights, and anyone concerned with the
most fundamental moral issue of our time." --R. H. Dekmejian,
Choice "Taking Lives leaves no stone unturned in its thorough
analysis....[It] is a critical, scholary reference not to be
overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as
it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easy the
state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder."
--Wisconsin Bookwatch "Horowitz alerts us to a key question
concerning sociological death, well within the tradition of
Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, and Mills." --George Hillery "Horowitz
has located the paramount feature that distinguishes one society
from another. No one can evade his challenge to judge a society by
the number of people it kills. Taking Lives is written with
literary grace by a brilliant scholar and committed moralist."
--Charles C. Moskos "This book will long be read not in the
hackneyed sense of a 'social science classic' but because it will
continue to state the case so brilliantly and persuasively for a
human and creative democratic society." --Anselm L. Strauss
"Outstanding Title! Horowitz has significantly expanded and
thoroughly revised this fourth edition of his classic study of
genocide. Since its first publication (Genocide: State Power and
Mass Murder, 1976), Taking Lives has been regarded as a pivotal
attempt to analyze the sociopolitical context of mass murder. It
asserts that genocide is not a random event or necessarily linked
to social conditions... Among the mass killings analyzed are the
Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and
Yugoslavia... Imperative for students of genocide, comparative
ethnic politics and human rights, and anyone concerned with the
most fundamental moral issue of our time." --R. H. Dekmejian,
Choice ""Taking Lives" leaves no stone unturned in its thorough
analysis....[It] is a critical, scholary reference not to be
overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as
it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easy the
state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder."
"--Wisconsin Bookwatch" "Horowitz alerts us to a key question
concerning sociological death, well within the tradition of
Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, and Mills." "--George Hillery" "Horowitz
has located the paramount feature that distinguishes one society
from another. No one can evade his challenge to judge a society by
the number of people it kills. Taking Lives is written with
literary grace by a brilliant scholar and committed moralist."
"--Charles C. Moskos" "This book will long be read not in the
hackneyed sense of a 'social science classic' but because it will
continue to state the case so brilliantly and persuasively for a
human and creative democratic society." "--Anselm L. Strauss"
"Horowitz alerts us to a key question concerning sociological
death, well within the tradition of Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, and
Mills.""-George Hillery"
"Horowitz has located the paramount feature that distinguishes one
society from another. No one can evade his challenge to judge a
society by the number of people it kills. Taking Lives is written
with literary grace by a brilliant scholar and committed moralist."
"- Charles C. Moskos"
"This book will long be read not in the hackneyed sense of a
'social science classic' but because it will continue to state the
case so brilliantly and persuasively for a human and creative
democratic society.""-Anselm L. Strauss"
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