03247nam 2200625 450 991079780440332120170919043503.01-4985-1267-4(CKB)3710000000531017(EBL)4182152(OCoLC)930782013(SSID)ssj0001581874(PQKBManifestationID)16257146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001581874(PQKBWorkID)14790628(PQKB)10036490(MiAaPQ)EBC4182152(EXLCZ)99371000000053101720150915h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRadical legacies twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States /Arthur ReddingLanham :Lexington Books,[2016]©20161 online resource (171 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-1268-2 1-4985-1266-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The uselessness of American intellectuals -- Be free!: globalism and democratic pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams -- World War I and the origins of the national security state: Mary Antin, Randolph Bourne, and Emma Goldman -- Mary McCarthy's swizzle sticks: food, drink, and consumerism in the American depression -- Herman Melville's Cold War: re-reading C. L. R. James's mariners, renegades, and castaways -- Turning poetry into bread: Langston Hughes, travel-writing, and the professionalization of African-American literary production -- Legacies of the new left: Paul Goodman, C. Wright Mills, and Angela Davis -- Conclusion: Thought during wartime: American public intellectuals in the twenty-first century.What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institutions and cultural and intellectual production. Chapters on both well-known and neglected public intellectuals address problems of critical dissent during wartime, the contemporary crisis of the humanities under neoliberalism, and the perils of consumer culture and popular taste, arguing that any ""use-value"" theory of intellectual production is limiting.IntellectualsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWar and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryDissentersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCriticismHistory20th centuryRadicalsUnited StatesIntellectualsHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryWar and literatureHistoryDissentersHistoryCriticismHistoryRadicals320.530973Redding Arthur F.1964-1540544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797804403321Radical legacies3823003UNINA