L Greenfeld
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 23553 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Greenfeld |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Greenfeld |
| ASSINATURA | GREENFELD L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0197-4701 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 224 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
How the ‘Social Sciences’ Killed Our Universities
The collapse of communism in the early 1990s left large numbers of social scientists studying Cold War topics without purpose or relevance to policymakers. With communism and class conflict passé and no serious challenge to American power, many practitioners turned to the topics of identity politics and racial grievance as a way to reestablish their public importance. This, more than anything else, says social scientist Liah Greenfeld, is respons…
A new explanation of antisemitism
This article connects antisemitism to the borrowed monotheism of Christianity and Islam and the psychological dynamics of envy and inferiority complex vis-à-vis the Jews this borrowing of God produces among intellectual leaders of the two derivative monotheistic communities. Through tropes created by these leaders, antisemitism deeply affects the consciousness of the general population in these communities. Understanding antisemitism as a phenome…
Old Testament and Nationalism
This article discusses the co-evolution of nationalism and Protestantism in the course of the sixteenth century in England; the influence of the Hebrew Bible’s concept of “the people of Israel” as a community of fundamentally equal members on the emerging English national consciousness (the first national consciousness to develop, in turn influencing all subsequent nationalisms); and the reinterpretation of the core passages of the Hebrew Bible, …
Nationalism
Not a day has gone by in these past several years without nationalism appearing in the headlines. Let us, for the sake of this chapter, limit ourselves to the period since 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympics. The event signified Chinese nationalism’s coming of age; it was in no uncertain terms and very publicly presented to the world. The world, unaware that Chinese nationalism existed at all, was caught by surprise, from which it still, over …
Covid‐19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis
In this article, several scholars of nationalism discuss the potential for the COVID‐19 pandemic to impact the development of nationalism and world politics. To structure the discussion, the contributors respond to three questions: (1) how should we understand the relationship between nationalism and COVID‐19; (2) will COVID‐19 fuel ethnic and nationalist conflict; and (3) will COVID‐19 reinforce or erode the nation‐state in the long run? The con…
A Singular Case
A Singular Case is a solid piece of work. Interested in early modern European and Chinese economic history, Millar focuses on discussions of Chinese political economy in Europe (mostly France and Britain) in the eighteenth century (specifically, 1696 to 1776). A detailed description of China by Louis Le Comte provides the starting point, and the appearance of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (which discussed the Chinese economy, among others) marks…
Caveat
Instead of a conclusion, this special issue ends with a discussion between Liah Greenfeld, on the one hand, and Uriel Abulof and Markus Kornprobst, on the other hand, about the merits of studying public justification and how best to do so. Greenfeld suggests that public justification is predicated on the autonomy of the political sphere, the importance ascribed to public views, and to the prevalence of justification. Seeing public justification a…
Approaching Human Nature - and Needs - Empirically
Back to 1984
S hils, E dward (1910–95)
Edward Shils was, as a matter of general agreement, one of the world's most distinguished social theorists and arguably the most distinguished American social theorist of the twentieth century. He cared far more about understanding the realities he studied than being right. This entry details his life and his central ideas.
In Defense of Sociological Mentalism
Mind, Modernity, Madness
A leading interpreter of modernity argues that our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is making millions mentally ill. Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia, Liah Greenfeld, in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism, traces these dysfunctions to society's overburdening demands for self-realization
Nationalism
Nationalism and globalization are often considered processes leading to opposite poles in cultural, economic, and political history, but in fact the relationship between them has been far more complex, and in the past century and a half they may be said to have worked in tandem. Nationalism emerged in a sixteenth‐century country in Western Europe – England – its emergence coinciding with the dawning of “the European Age in History”: the rise of W…
The Globalization of Nationalism and the Future of the Nation–State
On Raymond Aron, passion, identity, and the intricate paths of intellectual filiation
In this discussion, I reflect on the intellectual kinship between Raymond Aron and other scholars. By parsing this heritage I explore his position as a member of my extended intellectual family. Divergences in our thought and scholarly orientation are analyzed. This article highlights the complex links forged between individual scholars in the chain of cultural development
Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon
Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850
The goal of the volume, as the editors announce in the introduction, is to present some fresh research on the history of institutional care for the mentally ill and disabled. The work included in it is indeed fresh in several respects. The majority of the nine authors of the book's ten chapters are young scholars, some but recently done with their doctoral theses. Together, their essays offer a welcome corrective to the voluminous body of the pol…
Nationalism and Modern Economy
Based on a close reading of Weber's work, the essay offers a mentalist (focused on the mind) reinterpretation of his sociology, sharply distinguished from the academic discipline of sociology as it has been taught and practiced. It then reevaluates the significance of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as a theory of dramatic social change (a reorientation of a sphere of social action), treating as irrelevant the philosophical fram…
Nationalism and the mind
The trouble with social science
Some of the most celebrated theories of nationalism exemplify the self‐confirming, evidence‐averse, deterministic, and ideological aspects of social science as we know it. What has gone wrong? The social sciences have modeled themselves on physics, failing to grasp the essential difference between the contingent, historical development of cultural particularity and the universal, law‐like regularities of inanimate matter. The physicist's tools fo…
When the Sky Is the Limit
Liah Greenfeld When the Sky Is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society HOW LONG AGO WAS IT THAT I WAS ASKED TO WRITE THIS ESSAY ON busyness for Social Research—a year, perhaps more? I agreed on the spot: the subject seemed interesting and had been bothering me for some time. But I couldn’t do anything with it until a week before the deadline. I was too busy, o f course. Now I have to drop every thing else to write it, and it drives …
Non-partisan reflections on the president's affair
Citizenship, Nationality, and Ethnicity
Part I: The Conceptual Kit: The Search for Clarity: . 1. Introducing the Argument. 2. Rethinking Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity. 3. Avoiding Conflations and Subsumptions. 4. Race and Religion: Untenable Factors in Nation Formation. Part II: The Empirical Process: The Trajectory of Ethnification: . 5. Colonialism and European Expansion. 6. Proletarian Internationalism and the Socialist State. 7. The Nation--State and Project Homogenization…
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Nationalism and the Mind
A student's Introduction vii1. Reflections on Two Chrismas 1 2. Russian Formalist Sociology of literature: A sociologist's perspective 20 3. Science and National Greatness in Seventeenth-Century England 43 4. Nationalism and Modernity 64 5. The Modern Religion? 93 6. Praxis Pietatis: A tribute to Edward Shils 115 7. The Political Significance of Culture 135 8. Science and Literature as Social Institutions 145 9. An Invitation to a Dialogue: A Com…
Covid‐19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis
In this article, several scholars of nationalism discuss the potential for the COVID‐19 pandemic to impact the development of nationalism and world politics. To structure the discussion, the contributors respond to three questions: (1) how should we understand the relationship between nationalism and COVID‐19; (2) will COVID‐19 fuel ethnic and nationalist conflict; and (3) will COVID‐19 reinforce or erode the nation‐state in the long run? The con…
Nationalism and aggression
Nationalism
The modern religion
Nationalism is an essentially secular form of consciousness, one that, indeed, sacralizes the secular. This renders the temptation to treat it as a religion problematic. The framework of individual and collective identities in modern societies, nationalism both obscures the importance of the transcendental concerns that lie at the core of great religions and undermines their authority. Though instrumental in the development of nationalism, religi…
Reflections on Two Charismas
Nationalism and the mind
Soviet Sociology and Sociology in the Soviet Union
The core of the paper is an analysis of the meaning of sociology in the USSR, as defined by the participants and outsiders alike. The review is based on the study of programmatic statements, the character of references in sociological writings, and available biographical information on their authors. All of these help to locate Soviet sociology within the intellectual enterprise in general and to establish whether it is actually a counterpart of …
"Professional Ideologies and Patterns of "Gatekeeping
Decisions of “gatekeepers” in abstract avantgarde art are characterized by less independence than decisions made by their counterparts in different figurative styles. This difference is seen to be related to the character of professional ideologies within the framework of which the two sets of “gatekeepers” work. Specifically, the demand for the absolute freedom of artistic expression and the proscription of judgment in the philosophy of avantgar…
The Formation of the Russian National Identity
This paper is a part of a much larger study in comparative historical sociology addressing the question of the emergence and initial development of the related phenomena that may be subsumed under the umbrella term 'nationalism': national identity, national consciousness, and political collectivities based on such an identity and consciousness-nations. This larger project focuses on the five societies that were among the very first to define them…
Russian Formalist Sociology of Literature
Russian formalism has been of interest in the west for at least three decades since the publication of Victor Erlich's authoritative study of the school in 1954. Almost every year significant new contributions are made to the analysis of the formalists' scholarship; their multiplex theory, with all of its different, and at times seemingly contradictory, aspects, is elucidated, and many of these aspects are successfully incorporated in modern crit…
The worth of nations
Accounts that attribute nationalism to capitalism or industrialization face the problem of nationalism in late‐stage capitalist, or as some might say, post‐industrial, societies. While increasing social significance has been attributed to economic growth throughout human history, reasons for this are far from self‐evident. By looking at arguments made by Marx, List, and Smith, a new understanding of the relationship between nationalism and econom…
Nationalism and Modern Economy
Based on a close reading of Weber's work, the essay offers a mentalist (focused on the mind) reinterpretation of his sociology, sharply distinguished from the academic discipline of sociology as it has been taught and practiced. It then reevaluates the significance of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as a theory of dramatic social change (a reorientation of a sphere of social action), treating as irrelevant the philosophical fram…
The trouble with social science
Some of the most celebrated theories of nationalism exemplify the self‐confirming, evidence‐averse, deterministic, and ideological aspects of social science as we know it. What has gone wrong? The social sciences have modeled themselves on physics, failing to grasp the essential difference between the contingent, historical development of cultural particularity and the universal, law‐like regularities of inanimate matter. The physicist's tools fo…
The Globalization of Nationalism and the Future of the Nation–State
Nationalism
Science and National greatness in seventeenth-century England
A new explanation of antisemitism
This article connects antisemitism to the borrowed monotheism of Christianity and Islam and the psychological dynamics of envy and inferiority complex vis-à-vis the Jews this borrowing of God produces among intellectual leaders of the two derivative monotheistic communities. Through tropes created by these leaders, antisemitism deeply affects the consciousness of the general population in these communities. Understanding antisemitism as a phenome…
On Raymond Aron, passion, identity, and the intricate paths of intellectual filiation
In this discussion, I reflect on the intellectual kinship between Raymond Aron and other scholars. By parsing this heritage I explore his position as a member of my extended intellectual family. Divergences in our thought and scholarly orientation are analyzed. This article highlights the complex links forged between individual scholars in the chain of cultural development
Praxis pietatis
Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution
The role of the public in the success of artistic styles
The interrelation between creative artists and their public, and active participation on the part of the public in the 'social production of art' seems to be a point of consensus in recent sociological literature on art (Becker 1982; Peterson 1976; Wolff 1981). The theoretical consensus is based upon empirical studies which, while focusing on the public, attack a variety of questions. Some of them deal with the socioeconomic characteristics of gr…
Reflections on Two Charismas
When Russia Learned to Read
The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
Science and National greatness in seventeenth-century England
Russian Formalist Sociology of Literature
Russian formalism has been of interest in the west for at least three decades since the publication of Victor Erlich's authoritative study of the school in 1954. Almost every year significant new contributions are made to the analysis of the formalists' scholarship; their multiplex theory, with all of its different, and at times seemingly contradictory, aspects, is elucidated, and many of these aspects are successfully incorporated in modern crit…
New Nationalisms of the Developed West
"Professional Ideologies and Patterns of "Gatekeeping
Decisions of “gatekeepers” in abstract avantgarde art are characterized by less independence than decisions made by their counterparts in different figurative styles. This difference is seen to be related to the character of professional ideologies within the framework of which the two sets of “gatekeepers” work. Specifically, the demand for the absolute freedom of artistic expression and the proscription of judgment in the philosophy of avantgar…
Soviet Sociology and Sociology in the Soviet Union
The core of the paper is an analysis of the meaning of sociology in the USSR, as defined by the participants and outsiders alike. The review is based on the study of programmatic statements, the character of references in sociological writings, and available biographical information on their authors. All of these help to locate Soviet sociology within the intellectual enterprise in general and to establish whether it is actually a counterpart of …
Different Worlds
Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art. The author analyses the patterns of social relations and behaviour created around two art worlds - the world of abstract avant-garde art and the world of traditional figu…
The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Material Culture
Reflections of a bourgeois Menshevik
Into Something Rich and Strange
The Formation of the Russian National Identity
This paper is a part of a much larger study in comparative historical sociology addressing the question of the emergence and initial development of the related phenomena that may be subsumed under the umbrella term 'nationalism': national identity, national consciousness, and political collectivities based on such an identity and consciousness-nations. This larger project focuses on the five societies that were among the very first to define them…
Nationalism Redux
Nationalism
Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution
Nationalism and Modernity
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Nationalism and aggression
Nationalism
Introduction 1. God's Firstborn: England Reflection of the National Consciousness in Discourse and Sentiment The New Aristocracy, the New Monarchy, and the Protestant Reformation The English Bible, the Bloody Regiment of Queen Mary, and the Burning Matter of Dignity England as God's Peculiar People, and the Token of His Love The Sound of Their Voices The Changing Position of the Crown and Religion in the National Consciousness A Land of Experimen…
Nationalism
The worth of nations
Accounts that attribute nationalism to capitalism or industrialization face the problem of nationalism in late‐stage capitalist, or as some might say, post‐industrial, societies. While increasing social significance has been attributed to economic growth throughout human history, reasons for this are far from self‐evident. By looking at arguments made by Marx, List, and Smith, a new understanding of the relationship between nationalism and econom…
The God of Modernity
Praxis pietatis
The birth of economic competitiveness
In “The Worth of Nations” I proposed that nationalism was a major factor in the emergence of the modem, growth‐oriented economy. In response to criticisms, I demonstrate here the nationalistic inspiration of seventeenth‐century English—or British—economic tracts. Urging a reconsideration of earlier approaches (such as that of W.W. Rostow) to the problem of why—rather than how—the modern economy emerged, I agree with Max Weber's challenge to the n…
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