ABSTRACT
Irving Louis Horowitz (1929-2012) was Hannah Arendt distinguished professor of sociology and political science at Rutgers University, where he had been located since 1969. Professor Horowitz was editor-in-chief of Society, the periodical of record in the social sciences. During the 1960s he was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, where Transaction Publishers, of which he was president, was founded. He held major visiting professorships at Stanford, Wisconsin, California, Rochester, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also held overseas appointments at the London School of Economics, the National University of Mexico, the University of Tokyo, Queens University in Canada, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he was distinguished lecturer in the American Civilization program. He served as visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires three times in the late 1950s.
