Gad Horowitz

Gad Horowitz (b. 1936 in Jerusalem) BA (Manitoba), MA (McGill), Ph.D. (Harvard) is a noted Canadian political scientist. He teaches at the University of Toronto.

Horowitz has specialised in labour theory, and most notably coined the appellation "Red Tory" in his application of Louis Hartz's "fragment theory" to Canadian political culture and ideological development, in his essay "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation" (in the "Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science", 1966). The use of this appellation differentiates traditional Canadian Toryism from the powerful classical liberal elements that began to emerge in the Conservative Party after World War II, but it has applications to conservative parties in other countries where "Tory" acceptance of state enterprises, the welfare state, and other institutions seen as expressions of national character conflicts with "liberal" or "neoliberal" rejection of state intervention in the economy.

Horowitz's other major publications include "Canadian Labour in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF/NDP" (1968); "Repression: Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud, Reich and Marcuse" (1977); "The Foucaultian Impasse," in "Political Theory" (1987); "Everywhere They Are in Chains: Political Theory from Rousseau to Marx" (1988); and "Groundless Democracy: Postructuralism and Buddhism" in "Shadow of the Spirit" (1992).

External links

* [http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397 "On Intellectual Life, Politics & Psychoanalysis"]
* [http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/horowitz.html "Pax Romana"]