Lewis Samuel Feuer

Lewis Samuel Feuer

Lewis Samuel Feuer (1912-2002) was an American sociologist. Initially a committed Marxist, in later life he was a neo-conservative.

Life

He was born in Manhattan. He graduated from City College in 1931, and was awarded a Ph. D. at Harvard University in 1935. for a dissertation in philosophy supervised by Alfred North Whitehead. [Thomas Cushman and John Rodden, "Sociology and the intellectual life: An interview with Lewis S. Feuer", The American Sociologist, Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1997.]

After World War II. he taught at Vassar College, the University of Toronto, and Berkeley, where he early witnessed some of the student unrest about which he was to write.

Works

*Spinoza And The Rise Of Liberalism (1951)
*Psychoanalysis and Ethics (1955)
*Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels (1959) editor
*The Scientific Intellectual (1963)
*The Conflict of Generations; the character and significance of student movements (1969)
*Marx and the Intellectuals; a set of post-ideological essays 91969)
*Einstein and the Generations of Science (1974)
*Ideology and the Ideologists (1975)
*Imperialism and the Anti-imperialist Mind (1986)

Further reading

*"Philosophy, history, and social action : essays in honor of Lewis Feuer : with an autobiographical essay by Lewis Feuer" (1988) edited by Lewis Samuel Feuer, Sidney Hook, William L. O'Neill, Roger O'Toole

Notes

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E2D71338F933A05752C1A9649C8B63 "New York Times" obituary]


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