TY - BOOK ID - 135785118 TI - Marginal at the center : the life story of a public sociologist AU - Kimmerling, Baruch AU - Kimmerling, Diana PY - 2012 SN - 0857457519 0857457209 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Sociologists KW - Sociology KW - Kimmerling, Baruch. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135785118 AB - A self-proclaimed guerrilla fighter for ideas, Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic, a prolific writer, and a "public" sociologist. While he lived at the center of the Israeli society in which he was involved as both a scientist and a concerned citizen, he nevertheless felt marginal because of his unconventional worldview, his empathy for the oppressed, and his exceptional sense of universal justice, which were at odds with prevailing views. In this autobiography, the author, who was born in Transylvania in 1939 with cerebral palsy, describes how he and his family escaped the Nazis and ER -