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Irving Louis Horowitz
Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt distinguished university professor emeritus of sociology and political science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is also chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction Publishers at the University. David Riesman called him ‘simply a national treasure’, William Form, former editor of the American Sociological Review has lauded him for ‘making a larger contribution to fundamental theory in social development and political sociology than any individual in the profession’. Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, noted that ‘the empire of truth and information that Transaction has built is a tremendous accomplishment’. The founder of The Free Press, Jeremiah Kaplan identified Horowitz as ‘one of the most eminent social science publishers of our time’.
His two books of greatest relevance to this area of research are Communicating Ideas (1986) and Publishing as a Vocation (2011).