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{{Short description|Canadian political scientist (born 1936)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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'''Gad Horowitz''' (born 1936) is a Canadian [[political scientist]]. He is a professor emeritus at the [[University of Toronto]].

==Biography==
Horowitz was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated to Canada {{citation needed span |date=November 2018 |text=with his parents}} at the age of 2.{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}<ref name="The Senior Times">{{cite web |last=Block |first=Irwin |date=10 October 2013 |title=Horowitz Has Made a Career of Challenging Prevailing Notions |url=http://www.theseniortimes.com/gad-horowitzs-subversive-itinerary-of-societal-exploration/ |website=The Senior Times |access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> His father Rabbi Aaron Horowitz, was a prominent member of the [[Jew]]ish community and a key figure in founding [[Camp Massad (Montreal)|Camp Massad]] in Canada.<ref name="The Senior Times"/> He grew up in [[Calgary]], [[Winnipeg]], and [[Montreal]].{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}

Horowitz earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from [[United College (Winnipeg)|United College]].<ref name="The Senior Times"/>{{sfn|Wiseman|2013|p=22}} He earned his [[Master of Arts]] degree from [[McGill University]] in 1959, writing his [[thesis]] on ''Mosca and Mills: ''Ruling Class'' and ''Power Elite.{{sfnm |1a1=Campbell |1y=2003 |2a1=Horowitz |2y=1959}} He earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1965, writing his thesis on ''Canadian {{not a typo|Labor}} in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937–62'',{{sfn|Horowitz|1965}} with [[Samuel Beer|Sam Beer]] as his advisor.{{sfn|Campbell|2003}}

Horowitz has specialized in labour theory, and most notably coined the appellation ''[[Red Tory]]'' in his application of [[Louis Hartz]]'s fragment theory to [[political culture of Canada|Canadian political culture]] and ideological development, in his essay "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation" (in the ''[[Canadian Journal of Political Science]]'', 32, 2 (1966): 143–71).{{sfnm |1a1=Forbes |1y=2007 |1p=235 |2a1=Leuprecht |2y=2003 |3a1=Smiley |3y=1981 |3p=150}} The use of this appellation differentiates traditional Canadian [[Toryism]] from the powerful [[classical liberal]] elements that began to emerge in the Conservative Party after the [[Second World War]], but it has applications to conservative parties in other countries where "Tory" acceptance of state enterprises, the [[welfare state]], and other institutions seen as expressions of national character conflicts with "liberal" or "neoliberal" rejection of state intervention in the economy.

Horowitz was a member of the editorial board of ''[[Canadian Dimension]]'' in its early days, and a frequent contributor to that magazine.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brett |first=Matthew |date=12 June 2008 |title=Gad Horowitz: Canadian Intellectual |url=https://canadiandimension.com/blog/view/gad-horowitz-canadian-intellectual |work=Canadian Dimension |location=Winnipeg, Manitoba |access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref>

Horowitz teaches a class at the [[University of Toronto]] entitled The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship which revolves around [[general semantics]], a non-[[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian]] educational discipline first theorized by [[Polish people|Polish]] [[engineer]] [[Alfred Korzybski]]. A 21-part video series called [http://www.radicalgeneralsemantics.net/%5B(r)GS%5D.html 'Radical General Semantics'] has been made of his lectures.

==Selected bibliography==
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkYBGwAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Creative politics. Mosaics & identity |year=1966|last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad }}
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_EeNAAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Mosaics & identity |year=1966|last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad }}
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDj-QwAACAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Canadian Nationalism: Articles on foreign ownership, international trade unionism, sports media, Americanization of the universities, and more |publisher=Canadian Dimension}}
*{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/canadianlabourin0000horo |url-access= registration |quote= gad horowitz. |title=Canadian Labour in Politics |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1968}}
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekx9AAAAMAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title=Repression: Basic and surplus repression in psychoanalytic theory: Freud, Reich, and Marcuse |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1977 |isbn= 0-8020-5379-3}}
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLstAAAAYAAJ&q=gad+horowitz |title="Everywhere they are in chains": Political theory from Rousseau to Marx |year=1988 |publisher=Nelson Canada|isbn= 0-17-603412-9}}
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llUkSYlfn9EC&q=gad+horowitz |title=Difficult justice: Commentaries on Levinas and politics |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=January 2006 |isbn=0-8020-8009-X}} (with Asher Horowitz)
*{{cite book |last1=Horowitz |first1=Gad |title=The Book of Radical General Semantics |date=2016 |publisher=Pencraft International |isbn=978-9382178170 |pages=260}}

==Articles==
*{{cite journal| title=Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation |journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science |volume=32 |issue=1 |year=1966 |pages=143–71 |doi=10.2307/139794|jstor=139794 |last1=Horowitz |first1=G. }}
*{{cite web |url= http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/horowitz.html |title= Global Pardon: Pax Romana, Pax Americana, and Kol Nidre |publisher= [[Bad Subjects]] |date= December 2001 |access-date= 6 September 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927223521/http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/horowitz.html |archive-date= 27 September 2011 |url-status= dead }}

==References==
===Citations===
{{reflist|22em}}

===Works cited===
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
* {{cite book
|last=Andrew
|first=Edward G.
|year=2013
|chapter=The Odd Couple of Canadian Intellectual History
|editor1-last=Bell
|editor1-first=Shannon
|editor1-link=Shannon Bell
|editor2-last=Kulchyski
|editor2-first=Peter
|title=Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|pages=42–53
|isbn=978-1-4426-4532-5
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Campbell
|first=Colin
|year=2003
|title=On Intellectual Life, Politics and Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Gad Horowitz
|url=http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397
|journal=CTheory
|access-date=6 September 2011
|archive-date=21 January 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121125918/http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397
|url-status=dead
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Forbes
|first=Hugh Donald
|year=2007
|title=George Grant: A Guide to His Thought
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|isbn=978-0-8020-8142-1
}}
* {{cite thesis
|last=Horowitz
|first=Gad
|year=1959
|title=Mosca and Mills: Ruling Class and Power Elite
|url=http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111784&silo_library=GEN01
|degree=MA
|location=Montreal
|publisher=McGill University
|oclc=820538864
|access-date=10 November 2018
}}
* {{cite thesis
|last=Horowitz
|first=Gad
|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=1965
|title=Canadian Labor in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF-NDP, 1937–62
|degree=PhD
|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
|publisher=Harvard University
|oclc=76987033
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Leuprecht
|first=Christian
|year=2003
|title=The Tory Fragment in Canada: Endangered Species?
|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science
|volume=36
|issue=2
|pages=401–416
|doi=10.1017/s000842390377869x
|ssrn=1279533
|s2cid=155032854
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Smiley
|first=Donald V.
|year=1981
|title=Review of ''The Tory Syndrome: Leadership Politics in the Progressive Conservative Party'', by George C. Perlin
|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science
|volume=14
|issue=1
|pages=148–150
|jstor=3230399
|issn=1744-9324
|doi=10.1017/S000842390003540X
|s2cid=154386721
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Wiseman
|first=Nelson
|year=2013
|chapter=The Life and Times of Horowitz the Canadianist
|editor1-last=Bell
|editor1-first=Shannon
|editor1-link=Shannon Bell
|editor2-last=Kulchyski
|editor2-first=Peter
|title=Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz
|location=Toronto
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|pages=15–41
|isbn=978-1-4426-4532-5
}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
*{{YouTube|4p9fHdjg_hQ|"Berlin Dharma: Interview with Canadian intellectual Gad Horowitz" (video)}}

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