LEADER 03289nam 22006735 450 001 9910484735003321 005 20230810170936.0 010 $a9783030477608 010 $a3030477606 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-47760-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011515500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6380955 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-47760-8 035 $a(Perlego)3480986 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011515500 100 $a20201021d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnti-Humanism in the Counterculture /$fby Guy Stevenson 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 223 p.) 311 08$a9783030477592 311 08$a3030477592 327 $a1. Introduction: Romanticism, Humanism and the Counterculture -- 2. Henry Miller and The Beats: An Anti-Humanist Precedent -- 3. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and their Transcendentalist Gloom -- 4. William Burroughs' Immodest Proposal -- 5. The Philosophy of Hip: Norman Mailer's 'Spiritual Existentialism' -- 6. Conclusion: Counterculture Then and Now. 330 $aThis book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas - ideas that doubted human perfectibility, spurned the majority for a spiritually elect few, and had their roots in earlier politically reactionary avant-gardes. Through case studies of iconic figures in the counterculture - the sexual revolutionary Henry Miller, Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and self-proclaimed 'philosopher of hip', Norman Mailer - Guy Stevenson explores a set of paradoxes at its center. Between a Walt Whitman-like optimism and pessimistic modernist intuitions; between brutal rhetoric and emancipatory desires; and between social egalitarianism and spiritual elitism. Such paradoxes, he argues, are vital to an understanding of the cultural and political worlds these writers helped shape - in their time and beyond. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aEthnology$zAmerica 606 $aCulture 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aSelf 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aAmerican Culture 606 $aPhilosophy of the Self 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aSelf. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aAmerican Culture. 615 24$aPhilosophy of the Self. 676 $a810.9005 676 $a800 700 $aStevenson$b Guy$01224951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484735003321 996 $aAnti-humanism in the counterculture$92844213 997 $aUNINA