Gad Horowitz
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Gad Horowitz (b. 1936 in Jerusalem) BA (Manitoba), MA (McGill), Ph.D. (Harvard) is a noted Canadian political scientist. He is teaching at the University of Toronto.
He specialised in Labour Theory, and most notably coined the appellation Red Tory in his application of Louis Hartz' "fragment theory" ("Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation," CJEPS (1966) to Canadian political culture and ideological development.
Prior to the use of "Red Tory," this type of Canadian conservatives was known as Tories. The use of the appellation "Red" was developed to differentiate toryism from the powerful classical liberal elements that began to emerge in the Conservative party after World War II.
His major publications include: "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation," CJEPS (1966); Canadian Labour in Politics: The Trade Unions and the CCF/NDP (1968); Repression: Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud, Reich and Marcuse (1977); "The Foucaultian Impasse," Political Theory (1987); Everywhere They Are in Chains: Political Theory from Rousseau to Marx (1988); "Groundless Democracy: Postructuralism and Buddhism" in Shadow of the Spirit (1992).
