Tag: Pitirim A. Sorokin The Crisis of Our Age

“The 50 years since The Crisis of Our Age have only reinforced the accuracy of his analysis.” (Harold O. J. Brown on Sorokin)

 

Harold O. J. Brown, ‘Regression and Renewal’ – Chronicles, January 1992

 

Posted here (downloadable Word document above):

Harold O. J. Brown

“Regression and Renewal”

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

January 1, 1992

Harold O. J. Brown (1933-2007) was a professor of theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College in 1953 and earned two degrees from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     July 2022

 

The Crisis of Our Age, paperback edition

 

 

 

review of “The Crisis of Our Age”; The Thomist 1942

 

review of ‘The Crisis of Our Age’ – The Thomist, July 1942

 

Posted here (above) as a downloadable PDF file is a review of The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin:

The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin (review)

By Louis A. Ryan

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

Volume 4, Number 3 (July 1942), pp. 523-533

It is a very thorough and thoughtful as well as discerning review, and I thought it worth posting.

 

— Roger W. Smith

     June 2018

“Almost Any Catastrophe Would Fit Into Harvard Professor’s Thesis”

 

‘almost any catastrophe would fit into Harvard’ prof’s thesis’ – Balt Sun 10-2-1935

 

He Told Us So

Almost Any Catastrophe Would Fit Into Harvard Professor’s Thesis

By U. P. Ives

The Baltimore Sun, October 2, 1939, pg. 8

 

Full article posted above as a downloadable PDF file.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     March 2018

“Creative Calamity” (editorial re Sorokin)

 

‘Creative Calamnity’ (editorial) – Wash Post 11-2-1942

 

posted here (above) as a PDF file:

“Creative Calamity” (editorial), The Washington Post, November 2, 1942, pg. 10

It discusses Sorokin’s views with reference to his The Crisis of Our Age and Man and Society in Calamity.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     March 2018

Pitirim A. Sorokin, foreword and preface to “The Crisis of Our Age”

 

foreword & preface to The Crisis of Our Age

 

Pitirim A. Sorokin, foreword and preface to The Crisis of Our Age (paperback edition; New York: E. P. Dutton, n.d.)

downloadable PDF file attached

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     January 2018