Working with Karl W. Deutsch: A life-changing experience on the professional and personal level. (September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Markovits, Andrei S
• Other Names: Ruzicka Jan guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: International relations. Volume 28:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 304
• Page End: 312
• Publication Date: 2014-09
• Subjects: comparative systems -- integration -- international relations -- Karl Deutsch -- mensch -- transcendental intellectual figure; International relations -- Periodicals; World politics -- Periodicals; 303.482
• DOI: 10.1177/0047117814545949
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0047-1178

Abstract

In tracing his 15-year relationship with Karl W. Deutsch, Andrei S. Markovits portrays the key intellectual agendas and major scholarly contributions that formed the core of Deutsch's academic life. The article highlights how Deutsch's personal life as well as his singularly impressive qualities shaped the originality and greatness of his intellectual contributions but also the profound humaneness of his quotidian life.