Todd Gitlin

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Todd Gitlin (2007)

Todd Gitlin ( January 6, 1943 - February 5, 2022 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts ) was an American sociologist specializing in media sociology and former spokesman (chairman) of the Students for a Democratic Society , a '68 organization -movement .

career

Gitlin was educated at Harvard University , the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , and the University of California at Berkeley .

After professorships at Berkeley and New York University , he taught at Columbia University and was a regular columnist for The American Prospect and the website opendemocracy.org .

In spring 2011, Gitlin was a Bosch Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin .

In October 2016 he published together with Peter Beinart , Michael Walzer , Edward Witten , Adam Hochschild and others. an open letter in The New York Review of Books calling for a targeted boycott of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories .

Gitlin was a writer of fiction as well as non-fiction. He died in February 2022 at the age of 79.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Myths and Reality in Greece. in David Horowitz ed. Revolution and containment. London 1968; German Strategies of the counterrevolution. March publishing house, series March archive, 4.
    • German excerpt: aggression or resistance. The Beginning of the Civil War in Greece . in März-Texte 1 and Trivialmythen, Area, Erftstadt 2004, pp. 53–58.
  • Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970) ISBN 0-06-090235-3 .
  • Busy Being Born (1974) ISBN 0-87932-073-7 .
  • The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1980) ISBN 0-520-23932-6 .
  • Inside Prime Time (1983) ISBN 0-520-21785-3 .
  • The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987) ISBN 0-553-37212-2 .
  • Watching Television , editor (1987) ISBN 0-394-54496-X .
  • The Murder of Albert Einstein. (1992) ISBN 0-553-37366-8 (novel).
  • The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995) ISBN 0-8050-4091-9 .
  • Sacrifice (1999) ISBN 0-8050-6032-4 (novel).
  • Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) ISBN 0-8050-7283-7 .
  • Letters To a Young Activist (2003) ISBN 0-465-02738-5 .
  • "Varieties of Patriotic Experience" in The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World , ed. George Packer (New York: Perennial, 2003). ISBN 0-06-053249-1 .
  • The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006) ISBN 0-231-12492-9 .

web links

footnotes

  1. ↑ Katharine Q. Seelye, Todd Gitlin, a Voice and Critic of the New Left, Dies at 79. In: New York Times. February 5, 2022, retrieved February 5, 2022 (English).
  2. ↑ For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories , New York Review of Books , October 13, 2016; Over 70 American Intellectuals Call for 'Targeted Boycott' of Israeli Settlements , Haaretz , September 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gitlin, Todd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
BIRTH DATE January 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH NYC
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Pittsfield , Massachusetts