The New York Intellectuals ReaderTaylor & Francis, 2007 - 441 страници In the early 1930's in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the finer points of Marxist doctrine, the true nature of socialism, and whether or not Stalin or Trotsky was the true heir to Lenin. These young intellectuals went on to write for and found some of the most well known political and literary journals of the 20th century such as The Masses, Politics, Partisan Review, Encounter, Commentary, Dissent and The Public Interest. Figures such as Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, Susan Sontag, Dwight MacDonald, and Seymour Lipset penned some of the most important books of social science in the mid-twentieth century. They believed, above all else, in the importance of argument and the power of the pen. They were a vibrant group of engaged political thinkers and writers, but most importantly they were public intellectuals committed to addressing the most important political, social and cultural questions of the day. Here, with helpful head notes and a comprehensive introduction by Neil Jumonville, The New York Intellectuals Reader brings the work of these thinkers back into conversation. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Finding Native Grounds | 13 |
Starting Out in the Thirties 1962 | 15 |
New York in the Thirties 1961 | 25 |
Memoirs of a Trotskyist 1977 | 37 |
Philip Rahv 19081973 1974 | 49 |
Editorial Statement 1934 | 55 |
Editorial Statement 1937 | 59 |
On the Teaching of Modern Literature 1961 | 223 |
Against Interpretation 1964 | 243 |
The Cold War | 253 |
To Young Resisters 1949 | 255 |
Civil Liberties 1952A Study in Confusion 1952 | 259 |
A Foreign Policy for Survival An Exchange 1958 | 273 |
Intellectuals and Russia An Exchange 1959 | 289 |
Cultures and Countercultures | 303 |
I Choose the West 1952 | 63 |
Against Absolutism | 69 |
The New Failure of Nerve 1943 | 71 |
Total Domination 1951 | 91 |
The Sense and Nonsense of Whittaker Chambers 1952 | 107 |
Life and Culture at Midcentury | 119 |
Nature of Abstract Are 1937 | 121 |
AvantGarde and Kitsch 1939 | 143 |
Homage to Twelve Judges 1949 | 159 |
Reality in America 1950 | 163 |
The Historian as Reporter Edmund Wilson and the 1930s 1958 | 179 |
Twilight of the Intellectuals 1958 | 185 |
The End of Ideology in the West 1960 | 195 |
Masscult Midcult 1960 | 205 |
The KnowNothing Bohemians 1958 | 305 |
Problems in the 1960s 1982 | 317 |
Chapter 27 Norman Podhoretz 1930 My Negro Problemand Ours 1963 | 327 |
Negroes Jews The New Challenge to Pluralism 1964 | 341 |
Legacies | 353 |
In Defense of Equality 1973 | 355 |
Socialism and Liberalism Articles of Conciliation? 1977 | 371 |
On Being Deradicalized 1970 | 391 |
Between Nixon and the New Politics 1972 | 405 |
The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals 1979 | 411 |
Permission Acknowledgments | 427 |
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Back cover | 443 |