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- catalog abstract ""Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10234177.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1933-1953.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Publicity, privacy and secrecy: their equilibrium and its disruption -- 2. Two patterns of publicity, privacy, and secrecy: the United States and Great Britain -- 3. The changing world -- 4. The deeper sources -- 5. The strain of politics -- 6. The deformation of civility -- 7. The autonomy of science -- 8. Political discourse and the sense of affinity -- 9. The private sphere -- 10. The protection of security -- 11. Pluralistic politics -- 12. Ideological politics -- 13. A new alliance.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 238 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Torment of secrecy.".
- catalog identifier "156663105X (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Torment of secrecy.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,".
- catalog relation "Torment of secrecy.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1933-1953.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "327.73 20".
- catalog subject "Communism United States.".
- catalog subject "E743.5 .S48 1996".
- catalog subject "Internal security United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Publicity, privacy and secrecy: their equilibrium and its disruption -- 2. Two patterns of publicity, privacy, and secrecy: the United States and Great Britain -- 3. The changing world -- 4. The deeper sources -- 5. The strain of politics -- 6. The deformation of civility -- 7. The autonomy of science -- 8. Political discourse and the sense of affinity -- 9. The private sphere -- 10. The protection of security -- 11. Pluralistic politics -- 12. Ideological politics -- 13. A new alliance.".
- catalog title "The torment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies / Edward A. Shils ; with an introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan.".
- catalog type "text".