Liah Greenfeld
Russian-American Professor of Sociology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Liah Greenfeld is an Israeli-American Russian-Jewish interdisciplinary scholar engaged in the scientific explanation of human social reality on various levels, beginning with the individual mind and ending with the level of civilization. She has been called "the most iconoclastic" of contemporary sociologists and her approach represents the major alternative to the mainstream approaches in social science. Throughout her analyses, she emphasizes the empirical foundation of claims that she makes about human thought and action, underlining the importance of logical consistency between different sources of evidence as well as between the many interrelated hypotheses that come together to help us explain complex human phenomena. Because our thought and action are rarely limited to one, conveniently isolated sphere of human existence but rather occur within the context of more than one area of our reality at the same time Greenfeld highlights the fact that an empirical study of humanity must necessarily be interdisciplinary.
Liah Greenfeld's Published Works
Published Works
- Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (1995) (1461)
- The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (2001) (207)
- Nationalism and modernity (1996) (141)
- COVID‐19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis: A scholarly exchange (2020) (93)
- Nationalism and aggression (1994) (80)
- Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. (1993) (74)
- Different Worlds: A Sociological Study of Taste, Choice and Success in Art (1989) (59)
- The modern religion (1996) (51)
- Professional Ideologies and Patterns of “Gatekeeping”: Evaluation and Judgment Within Two Art Worlds (1988) (45)
- Reflections on Two Charismas (1985) (36)
- Nationalism and the mind (2005) (31)
- Nationalism and the Mind: Essays on Modern Culture (2006) (27)
- Center : ideas and institutions (1988) (25)
- The Formation of the Russian National Identity: The Role of Status Insecurity and Ressentiment (1990) (24)
- New Nationalisms of the Developed West: Toward Explanation.@@@First World Nationalisms: Class and Ethnic Politics in Northern Ireland and Quebec. (1985) (24)
- Soviet Sociology and Sociology in the Soviet Union (1988) (17)
- Modernity and Nationalism (2006) (16)
- Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience (2013) (15)
- Nationalism Redux@@@Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. (1993) (13)
- The trouble with social science (2005) (13)
- The worth of nations: Some economic implications of nationalism (1995) (9)
- Science and National greatness in seventeenth-century England (1987) (9)
- Russian Formalist Sociology of Literature: A Sociologist's Perspective (1987) (9)
- The Globalization of Nationalism and the Future of the Nation–State (2011) (8)
- When the Sky Is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society (2005) (7)
- Nationalism: A Short History (2019) (7)
- Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon (2010) (7)
- The bitter taste of success : Reflections on the intelligentsia in post-Soviet Russia (1996) (6)
- The Handbook of Political Sociology: Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (2003) (6)
- Nationalism and Modern Economy: Communing with the Spirit of Max Weber (2022) (5)
- The role of the public in the success of artistic styles (1984) (3)
- Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 216 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95, hard bound. (2000) (3)
- PHI (2019) (3)
- Russian nationalism as a medium of revolution: An exercise in historical sociology (1995) (2)
- SOCIOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION (1988) (2)
- Democracy, ethnic diversity and nationalism (2012) (2)
- Is Nationalism Legitimate? A Sociological Perspective on a Philosophical Question (1996) (2)
- The Ideals of Joseph Ben-David: The Scientist's Role and Centers of Learning Revisited (2017) (2)
- Advanced Introduction to Nationalism (2016) (2)
- Nationalism and Modernity: A Presentation Prepared for Crayenborgh Masterclass in History, University of Leiden (1994) (2)
- Praxis pietatis: A tribute to Edward Shils (1996) (2)
- Caveat: addressing public justification as an empirical phenomenon (2017) (1)
- Different worlds: Patterns of success (1989) (1)
- Back to 1984: The Role of American Universities in Dismantling Liberal Democracy (2016) (1)
- Conference on the state of the social sciences (2004) (1)
- Research Handbook on Nationalism (2020) (1)
- A Singular Case: Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment (2018) (1)
- On Raymond Aron, passion, identity, and the intricate paths of intellectual filiation (2011) (1)
- Liberal Nationalism. By Yael Tamir, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 194p. $24.95. (1994) (1)
- The Formation of Ethnic and National Identities (2010) (1)
- Main Currents and Sociological Thought (2017) (1)
- How Economics Became a Science: (2021) (1)
- Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe. Edited by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis, and Jaroslav Patek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 433. $74.95. (2003) (1)
- Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom (2009) (1)
- Nationalism and Protest (2021) (1)
- Nationalism as the cultural foundation of modern experience (2010) (1)
- Session I. The record of the social sciences (2004) (0)
- Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom (review) (2009) (0)
- Shils, Edward (1910–95) (2015) (0)
- Different worlds: Conclusion (1989) (0)
- The artists – attitudes of figurative painters (1989) (0)
- THE RISE OF ECONOMIC NATIONALISM, THE CASE OF NORWAY (2011) (0)
- Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (New York, Oxford University Press, 2014) 404 pp. $99.00 (2014) (0)
- The “gatekeepers” – gallery owners (1989) (0)
- Old Testament and Nationalism: Hebrew Bible, Jewish People, English Nation (2021) (0)
- The “gatekeepers” – curators (1989) (0)
- American Universities and the Stagnation of Knowledge (2017) (0)
- Volume Information (1987) (0)
- Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1997) (0)
- 4. Madness Muddled Manic-Depressive Illness (2013) (0)
- New Nationalisms of the Developed West: Toward Explanation.Edited by Edward A. Tiryakian and Ronald Rogowski. Allen & Unwin, 1985. 394 pp. $35.00 and First World Nationalisms: Class and Ethnic Politics in Northern Ireland and Quebec.By Katherine O'Sullivan See (1987) (0)
- Nationalism (2020) (0)
- Capitalism: Neither Problem Nor Solution-But Temporary Victim of the Financial Crisis (2012) (0)
- Non-partisan reflections on the president’s affair (1999) (0)
- Reflections of a bourgeois Menshevik (1989) (0)
- Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire Edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (review) (2014) (0)
- Different worlds: Appendices (1989) (0)
- Different worlds: The artists – attitudes of Conceptualists and Lyrical Abstractionists (1989) (0)
- 5. The Cradle of Madness (2013) (0)
- Back to 1984: The Role of American Universities in Dismantling Liberal Democracy (2016) (0)
- Different worlds: The publics (1989) (0)
- In Defense of Sociological Mentalism: A Reply to My Critics (2015) (0)
- Review essay (1995) (0)
- Citizenship, Nationality, and Ethnicity: Reconciling Competing Identities. By T.K. Oommen. Polity Press, 1997. 270 pp. Cloth, $54.95 (1998) (0)
- SLR volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1987) (0)
- Different worlds: The population of painters and the split into subsystems (1989) (0)
- 6. Going International The Spread of Madness in Europe (2013) (0)
- Different worlds: The “gatekeepers” – critics (1989) (0)
- Different worlds: Historical background (1989) (0)
- Nationalism: The Modern Motive-Force (2020) (0)
- Computers versus Humanity: Do we compete?: The technological singularity (Ubiquity symposium) (2014) (0)
- What's so great about freedom? (1993) (0)
- Approaching Human Nature – and Needs – Empirically (2017) (0)
- Speaking Historically about Globalization and Related Fantasies (2012) (0)
- Introduction to the Research Handbook on Nationalism (2020) (0)
- 7. Madder Than Them All From the Records of American Insanity (2013) (0)
- 2. The Mind as an Emergent Phenomenon (2013) (0)
- Approaching Human Nature – and Needs – Empirically (2017) (0)
- Preface to the Chinese Translation of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (2013) (0)
- Session II. The actual preoccupations of the social sciences (2004) (0)
- Reflections on Durkheim in Hong Kong (2018) (0)
- The birth of economic competitiveness: Rejoinder to Breckman and Trägårdh (1996) (0)
- 3. Madness in Its Pure Form Schizophrenia (2013) (0)
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