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, including Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt and Lionel Trilling among others, went on to write for and found some of the most well known political and literary journals of the 20th century. The New York Intellectuals Reader presents selections from this vibrant group of…mehr
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, including Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt and Lionel Trilling among others, went on to write for and found some of the most well known political and literary journals of the 20th century. The New York Intellectuals Reader presents selections from this vibrant group of political thinkers and writers, committed to addressing the most important political, social, and cultural questions of the day.
Neil Jummonville is the William Warren Rogers Professor of History and Chairperson of the Dept. of History at Florida State University. He specializes in U.S. Intellectual History with an emphasis on post WWII liberalism and American Studies. He is the author of two previous books and is currently working with Routledge author Kevin Mattson on a book of essays on the current state of liberalism.
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I. FINDING NATIVE GROUNDS 1. Alfred Kazin Starting Out in the Thirties 2. Irving Howe New York in the Thirties 3. Irving Kristol Memoirs of a Trotskyist 4. Mary McCarthy Philip Rahv 1908-1973 5. Editorial Statement Partisan Review 1934 6. Editorial Statement Partisan Review 1937 7. Dwight Macdonald I Choose the West II. AGAINST ABSOLUTISM 8. Sidney Hook The New Failure of Nerve 9. Hannah Arendt Total Domination 10. Philip Rahv The Sense and Nonsense of Whittaker Chambers III. LIFE AND CULTURE AT MIDCENTURY 11. Meyer Schapiro Nature of Abstract Art 12. Clement Greenberg Avant-Garde and Kitsch 13. Dwight Macdonald Homage to Twelve Judges 14. Lionel Trilling Reality in America 15. Alfred Kazin The Historian as Reporter: Edmund Wilson and the 1930s 16. Harold Rosenberg Twilight of the Intellectuals 17. Daniel Bell The End of Ideology in the West 18. Dwight Macdonald Masscult & Midcult 19. Lionel Trilling On the Teaching of Modern Literature 20. Susan Sontag Against Interpretation IV. THE COLD WAR 21. Paul Goodman To Young Resisters 22. Irving Kristol Civil Liberties 1952-A Study in Confusion 23. Sidney Hook and Bertrand Russell A Foreign Policy for Survival: An Exchange 24. C. Wright Mills and Irving Howe Intellectuals and Russia: An Exchange V. CULTURES AND COUNTERCULTURES OLD AND NEW LEFTS 25. Norman Podhoretz The Know-Nothing Bohemians 26. Irving Howe Problems in the 1960s RACE AND ETHNICITY 27. Norman Podhoretz My Negro Problem-And Ours 28. Nathan Glazer Negroes & Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism VI. LEGACIES LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT AFTER 1965 29. Michael Walzer In Defense of Equality 30. Irving Howe Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation? NEOCONSERVATIVISM 31. Nathan Glazer On Being Deradicalized 32. Norman Podhoretz Between Nixon and the New Politics 33. Irving Kristol The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I. FINDING NATIVE GROUNDS 1. Alfred Kazin Starting Out in the Thirties 2. Irving Howe New York in the Thirties 3. Irving Kristol Memoirs of a Trotskyist 4. Mary McCarthy Philip Rahv 1908-1973 5. Editorial Statement Partisan Review 1934 6. Editorial Statement Partisan Review 1937 7. Dwight Macdonald I Choose the West II. AGAINST ABSOLUTISM 8. Sidney Hook The New Failure of Nerve 9. Hannah Arendt Total Domination 10. Philip Rahv The Sense and Nonsense of Whittaker Chambers III. LIFE AND CULTURE AT MIDCENTURY 11. Meyer Schapiro Nature of Abstract Art 12. Clement Greenberg Avant-Garde and Kitsch 13. Dwight Macdonald Homage to Twelve Judges 14. Lionel Trilling Reality in America 15. Alfred Kazin The Historian as Reporter: Edmund Wilson and the 1930s 16. Harold Rosenberg Twilight of the Intellectuals 17. Daniel Bell The End of Ideology in the West 18. Dwight Macdonald Masscult & Midcult 19. Lionel Trilling On the Teaching of Modern Literature 20. Susan Sontag Against Interpretation IV. THE COLD WAR 21. Paul Goodman To Young Resisters 22. Irving Kristol Civil Liberties 1952-A Study in Confusion 23. Sidney Hook and Bertrand Russell A Foreign Policy for Survival: An Exchange 24. C. Wright Mills and Irving Howe Intellectuals and Russia: An Exchange V. CULTURES AND COUNTERCULTURES OLD AND NEW LEFTS 25. Norman Podhoretz The Know-Nothing Bohemians 26. Irving Howe Problems in the 1960s RACE AND ETHNICITY 27. Norman Podhoretz My Negro Problem-And Ours 28. Nathan Glazer Negroes & Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism VI. LEGACIES LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT AFTER 1965 29. Michael Walzer In Defense of Equality 30. Irving Howe Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation? NEOCONSERVATIVISM 31. Nathan Glazer On Being Deradicalized 32. Norman Podhoretz Between Nixon and the New Politics 33. Irving Kristol The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals
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