The torment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies /

"Edward Shils's "The torment of secrecy" is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures;...

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Autor principal: Shils, Edward, 1910-1995
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Elephant Paperbacks, Ivan R. Dee, 1996.
Colección:Elephant Paperbacks ; 303.
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245 1 4 |a The torment of secrecy :  |b the background and consequences of American security policies /  |c Edward A. Shils ; with an introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan. 
260 |a Chicago :  |b Elephant Paperbacks, Ivan R. Dee,  |c 1996. 
300 |a xxiii, 238 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
490 1 |a Elephant paperbacks ;  |v EL303 
500 |a Editado originalmente: Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press, c1956. 
505 0 |a Introduction / Daniel P. Moynihan -- Part I. Secrecy: Restriction and overflow: 1. Publicity, privacy and secrecy: their equilibrium and its disruption -- 2. Two patterns of publicity, privacy, and secrecy: the United States and Great Britain -- Part II. The background of excess: 3. The changing world -- 4. The deeper sources -- 5. The strain of politics -- Part III. Consequences: 6. The deformation of civility -- 7. The autonomy of science -- 8. Political discourse and the sense of affinity -- 9. The private sphere -- 10. The protection of security -- Part IV. Pluralism against extremism: 11. Pluralistic politics -- 12. Ideological politics -- 13. A new alliance. 
520 1 |a "Edward Shils's "The torment of secrecy" is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever." --Descripción del editor. 
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