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Editor Stephen Graubard and Managing Editor Geno Ballotti set topics, arrange the conferences, and negotiate with the foundations. "The suggestion for an issue of Daedalus," Graubard says, "might originate from a chance comment, a parenthetical remark; just as frequently it came through an explicit request of an interested reader." This is especially true if the interested reader happens to be the Carnegie Corporation. To qualify, the problem-topic must be such a nature as to require collaboration. To each topic is devoted a whole issue of Daedalus. The editors consult a larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy...
...anyone thinks One Dimensional Man was a great book, Graubard's article might well convince him otherwise. Every worthwhile thinker manages to vulgarize his own thought in his lifetime and Marcuse is no exception. The question remains: is anything in the book useful...
This is a strong claim and Graubard refutes it by citing counter examples. Not everyone reads Time and not everyone who does believes every word. Noam Chomsky, among others, has recently attacked behaviorism, and so on. The examples and refutations march on for pages...
...answer, I think, is yes, and I think Graubard would agree. There is a strong tendency in modern social science to view the existing order as an historically necessary and unalterable development. Experience is divided into a number of disconnected special areas--law, economics, international relations--and each area is governed by a set of "rules." Man becomes the object of the historical process; the best he can do is formulate moral rules to guide his conduct in the presence of ineluctable forces...
...objection to the unfortunate division of labor prescribed by the Mosaic editors is that a single review of both books might have indicated the vital connections between them. Graubard might have been encouraged to salvage the useful in Marcuse, and we would have been spared Bloom's diffuse comments on Origins...