ABSTRACT
That Irving Louis Horowitz defies categorization into those neat and mutually exclusive pigeon-holes that are used to compartmentalize even highly visible and highly productive people virtually goes without saying. Indeed, among those who know him well enough to intuit that he would appreciate the humor in the statement, it might be added that he even defies description. Yet, during a long and industrious career that has witnessed both the production and the application of scholarship even through the unusual stratagem of creating new vehicles and instrumentalities for its dissemination (a stratagem similar to that pursued, on rather a smaller scale, by John Dewey), there has been one constant: Horowitz has chosen to function within the academy, which has been his home base.
