The New York intellectuals reader / Neil Jumonville, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jumonville, Neil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Intellectuals.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 441 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

The New York Intellectuals Reader is the first anthology to collect the writings of the renowned group of thinkers and writers responsible for some of the most provocative and vital writings of the post-World War II era. Contributing to such periodicals as The Partisan Review, Commentary, and Dissent, the widely influential coterie of essayists that came together in mid-twentieth-century New York penned passionate, incisive essays that have left lasting imprints on the fields of politics, art, literature, and social thought. This collection of the best essays of the New York Intellectuals, assembled by Editor Neil Jumonville, reflects their ardent belief in the power of the pen and their immense enthusiasm for debate on a wide array of topics. Ultimately, The New York Intellectuals Reader highlights the enduring legacy of the group and illustrates why their ideas are as relevant in today's post-9/11 world as they were when first written forty years ago.

Contents:

Part I Finding Native Grounds

1 / Alfred Kazin Starting out in the Thirties 15

2 / Irving Howe New York in the Thirties 25

3 / Irving Kristol Memoirs of a Trotskyist 37

4 / Mary McCarthy Philip Rahv 49

5 / Partisan Review Editors Editorial Statement 55

6 / Partisan Review Editors Editorial Statement 59

7 / Dwight Macdonald I Choose the West 63

Part II Against Absolutism

8 / Sidney Hook The New Failure of Nerve 71

9 / Hannah Arendt Total Domination 91

10 / Philip Rahv The Sense and Nonsense of Whittaker Chambers 107

Part III Life and Culture at Midcentury

11 / Meyer Schapiro Nature of Abstract Art 121

12 / Clement Greenberg Avant-Garde and Kitsch 143

13 / Dwight Macdonald Homage to Twelve Judges 159

14 / Lionel Trilling Reality in America 163

15 / Alfred Kazin The Historian as Reporter: Edmund Wilson and the 1930s 179

16 / Harold Rosenberg Twilight of the Intellectuals 185

17 / Daniel Bell The End of Ideology in the West 195

18 / Dwight Macdonald Masscult & Midcult 205

19 / Lionel Trilling On the Teaching of Modern Literature 223

20 / Susan Sontag Against Interpretation 243

Part IV The Cold War

21 / Paul Goodman To Young Resisters 255

22 / Irving Kristol "Civil Liberties," 1952-A Study in Confusion 259

23 / Sidney Hook Bertrand Russell A Foreign Policy for Survival: An Exchange 273

24 / C. Wright Mills, Irving Howe Intellectuals and Russia: An Exchange 289

Part V Cultures and Countercultures

Old and New Lefts

25 / Norman Podhoretz The Know-Nothing Bohemians 305

26 / Irving Howe Problems in the 1960s 317

Race and Ethnicity

27 / Norman Podhoretz My Negro Problem-and Ours 327

28 / Nathan Glazer Negroes & Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism 341

Part VI Legacies

Liberalism and the Left after 1956

29 / Michael Walzer In Defense of Equality 355

30 / Irving Howe Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation? 371

Neoconservatism

31 / Nathan Glazer On Being Deradicalized 391

32 / Norman Podhoretz Between Nixon and the New Politics 405

33 / Irving Kristol The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals 411.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415952646

9780415952644

0415952654

9780415952651

OCLC:

74940825