Norman Birnbaum
Professor Emeritus
B.A., Williams; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard
Professor Birnbaum joined the Law Center in 1979 after serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology- Sociology at Amherst College and has since taught...
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Professor Birnbaum joined the Law Center in 1979 after serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology- Sociology at Amherst College and has since taught seminars in Humanities and the Law, Social Sciences and the Law, and the American Future and the Public Interest. He is very involved in politics both here and abroad, most recently serving as an advisor to the Cranston and Jackson campaigns and as a consultant to several European political parties and unions. He is a founding committee member of the Campaign for America's Future and advisor to members of the Congress and Senate. He also served as an advisor to the Kennedy Presidential Campaign, a consultant to the National Security Council, an advisor to the United Automobile Workers, the chair of the Policy Advisory Council of the New Democratic Coalition, and as a member of the editorial board of Partisan Review. His writings include The Crisis of Industrial Society and Toward A Critical Sociology. In addition, he has taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science at Oxford University and the University of Strasbourg. He spent 1986 at the Science Center and Institute of Advanced Studies in West Berlin, with travel to the USSR. He was a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in spring 1991. In 1998, he was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the University of Bologna. His The Radical Renewal, The Politics of Ideas in Modern America, was published in 1988 by Pantheon Books. A collection of essays was published by Oxford University Press, entitled Searching For The Light (1993). Oxford University Press will publish, in the year 2000, his After Progress: A Century of American Social Reform and European Socialism. He is now at work on a cultural, political, and personal memoir. He is a member of the editorial board of The Nation and publishes frequently in the American and European press. He is chair, Scholarly Advisory Board, International Institute for Peace (Vienna).
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Norman Birnbaum, War and Social Solidarity, in War and the Economy (Gregory Foster ed., forthcoming).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Norman Birnbaum, American Progressivism and the Obama Presidency, 81 Pol. Q. 471-483 (2010).
- Norman Birnbaum, The Presidential Election of 2008, 79 Pol. Q. 344-353 (2008).
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Norman Birnbaum, The Identity Divide, Europe and the United States, or the Right Question Wrongly Posed?, in Cosmopolitanism 107-117 (Kurt Almqvist & Erik Wallrup eds.,The Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation 2006).
- Norman Birnbaum, Missing in Action: The New Deal Legacy in American Politics, in Transitions In Social Democracy 42-58 (John Callaghan & Illaria Favretto eds., Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press 2006).
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Norman Birnbaum, War and Social Solidarity, in War and the Economy (Gregory Foster ed., forthcoming).
Books
- Después del 11 de Septiembre (Norman Birnbaum & Francisco Jarauta Marión eds., Madrid, Spain: Fundación Marcelino Botín 2003).
- Norman Birnbaum, Después del Progreso: Reformismo Social Estadounidense y Socialismo Europeo en el Siglo XX (Sara Barceló Cordón trans., Barcelona, Spain: Tusquets Editores 2003).
- Norman Birnbaum, Nach dem Fortschritt: Vorletzte Anmerkungen zum Sozialismus (Stuttgart, F.R.G.: Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt 2003).
- Norman Birnbaum, Tarkan Karatekin & Filiz Ulgüt, Sanayi Toplumunda Kriz [The Crisis of Industrial Societies] (Istanbul, Turk.: Babil Yayinlari 2002).
- Norman Birnbaum, Ilerleme ve Sonrasi: Yirminci Yüzyilda Amerikan Toplumsal Reformu ve Avrupa Sosyalizm [After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century] (Ali Tartanoglu trans., Ankara, Turk.: Dost 2001). [BOOK]
- Norman Birnbaum, Nach dem Fortschritt: Vorletzte Anmerkungen zum Sozialismus (Stuttgart, F.R.G.: Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt 2001).
- Norman Birnbaum, After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Norman Birnbaum, American Progressivism and the Obama Presidency, 81 Pol. Q. 471-483 (2010).
- Norman Birnbaum, The Presidential Election of 2008, 79 Pol. Q. 344-353 (2008).
- Norman Birnbaum, The 2006 Election and the American Future, 77 Pol. Q. 457-464 (2006).
- Norman Birnbaum, All Unquiet on the Western Front, Salmagundi, Fall 2004/Winter 2005, at 3-10. [W]
- Norman Birnbaum, 32 Contemp. Soc. 355 (2003) (reviewing Barrington Moore, Jr., Moral Purity and Persecution in History (2000)).
- Norman Birnbaum, An Old World Order in a New Guise, 16 Leiden J. Int'l L. 899-900 (2003). [WWW]
- Norman Birnbaum, Summary, 16 Leiden J. Int'l L. 929-932 (2003).
- Norman Birnbaum, After the Debacle, 72 Pol. Q. 146-158 (2001).
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Norman Birnbaum, The Identity Divide, Europe and the United States, or the Right Question Wrongly Posed?, in Cosmopolitanism 107-117 (Kurt Almqvist & Erik Wallrup eds.,The Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation 2006).
- Norman Birnbaum, Missing in Action: The New Deal Legacy in American Politics, in Transitions In Social Democracy 42-58 (John Callaghan & Illaria Favretto eds., Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press 2006).
- Norman Birnbaum, The Cold War and the Fate of Democratic Culture, in In Democracy's Shadow: The Secret World of National Security 63-72 (Marcus G. Raskin & A. Carl LeVan eds., New York: Nation Books 2005).
- Norman Birnbaum, John Kenneth Galbraith and the Uncompleted Task of Progress, in John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future of Economics 52-61 (Blandine Laperche & Dimitri Uzunidis eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005).
- Norman Birnbaum, Ni l'Amérique ni les démocraties occidentales ne sont capables d'exporter leur démocratie, in Démythifier L'Universalité des Valeurs Américaines 164-172 (Paris: Parangon 2004).
- Norman Birnbaum, Ni l'Amérique ni les Démocraties Occidentales ne sont Capable d'exporter Leur Démocratie, in Démythifier L'universalité des Valeurs Américaines 164-172 (Norman Birnbaum & Jean Liberman eds., Paris: Paragon 2004).
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
- Norman Birnbaum, El Legado de Obama en Política Exterior [The Legacy of Obama in Foreign Policy], Política Exterior, Nov.-Dec. 2012, at 78-90.
- Norman Birnbaum, Germany, Far and Near, Dissent, Spring 2012, at 9-13.
- Norman Birnbaum, Christopher Hitchens: Some Memories, The Nation, Dec. 19, 2011. [WWW]
- Norman Birnbaum, Gratitude and Forbearance, The Nation, Oct. 3, 2011, at 35-40 (reviewing Eric Miller, Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (2010)). [WWW]
- Norman Birnbaum, Bush zum Zweiten, 2005 Blätter für Deutsche & Int'l Pol. 164-172.
- Norman Birnbaum, La Sinistra è Diventata Obselete?, 56 Aggiornamenti Sociali 805-814 (2005).
- Norman Birnbaum, USA, I Prossimi Quattro Anni, 56 Aggiornamenti Sociali 144-153 (2005).
- Norman Birnbaum, Amerikanische Aussenpolitik nach dem Krieg und vor der Präsidentschaftswahl, 11 Osnabrücker Jb. Frieden & Wissen. 47-52 (2004). [WWW]
- Norman Birnbaum, György Széll & Brigitte Young, USA Heute - Selbsverständnis und Politik, 11 Osnabrücker Jb. Frieden & Wissen. 33-46 (2004).
- Norman Birnbaum & Paul Buhle, The Cold War: What Needs to be Rethought?, Dissent, Winter 2003, at 77-80.
- Norman Birnbaum, In Memoriam: Partisan Review, Chron. Higher Educ., May 9, 2003, at 13-14.
- Norman Birnbaum, Vous Citez Robert Kagan à Plusieurs Reprises. Celui-ci Est le Produit Typique d’un Milieu Américain Très Particulier, 30 Mouvements 88-96 (2003).
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