LEADER 04308oam 22006014a 450 001 9910485608403321 005 20231012205717.0 010 $a0-7006-3128-3 035 $a(CKB)5600000000000595 035 $a(OCoLC)1256265871 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse95572 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7295354 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7295354 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000000595 100 $a19900101d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRandolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism$fLeslie J Vaughan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity Press of Kansas$d1997 210 1$aLawrence, Kans :$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997. 215 $a1 online resource (XII-266 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican political thought 311 $a0-7006-0821-4 330 $aIn the "little rebellion" that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. Hunchbacked and caped?the "little sparrowlike man" of Dos Passos' U.S.A.?Bourne was an essayist and critic most remembered today for his opposition to U.S. military involvement in Europe and his assertion that "war is the health of the state." A frequent contributor to The New Republic, he died in 1918 at the age of 32, arguing that a "militaryindustrial" complex would continue to shape the policies of the modern liberal state.Bourne is also recognized as one of the founders of American cultural radicalism, revered in turn by Marxists, antifascists, and the New Left. Through his writings, he debated issues that were cultural as well as political from a position he described as "below the battle," rejecting the either/or political options of his day in favor of a viewpoint that argued outside the terms set by the establishment.In her new study of Bourne's political thought, Leslie Vaughan maintains that this position was not, as others have contended, a retreat from politics but rather a different form of political engagement, freed from the suppositions that impede genuine debate and democratic change. Her analysis challenges previous readings of Bourne's politics, showing that he offered nonstatist, neighborhoodbased politics in America's modern cities as a practical alternative to involvement in the national state and its militarism. By demonstrating Bourne's emphasis on politics as local, multiethnic, and intergenerational, Vaughan shows that his thought offered a new political discourse and set of cultural possibilities for American society in an era he was the first to label as "postmodern." Returning to the influence of Nietzsche on his thought, she also explores the role Bourne played in the creation of his own myth.Eighty years later, Bourne can be seen to stand at the cusp of the modern and the postmodern worlds, as he speaks to today's multiculturalist movement. In reexamining Bourne's writings, Vaughan has located the roots of twenthiethcentury radical thought while repositioning Bourne at the center of debates about the nature and limits of American liberalism. 410 0$aAmerican Political Thought 606 $aradicalisme (politique)$2rerovoc 606 $aidees politiques$zEtats-Unis$y20e s.(1ere moitie)$2rero 606 $aradicalisme (politique)$zEtats-Unis$y20e s. (1ere moitie)$2rero 606 $aradicalisme (politique)$xBourne, Randolph$2rero 606 $aidees politiques$xBourne, Randolph$2rero 606 $aRadicalisme$zE?tats-Unis$y1900-1945$2ram 607 $aE?tats-Unis$xVie intellectuelle$y1865-1918$2ram 610 $aPolitical science & theory 615 7$aradicalisme (politique) 615 7$aidees politiques 615 7$aradicalisme (politique) 615 7$aradicalisme (politique)$xBourne, Randolph. 615 7$aidees politiques$xBourne, Randolph. 615 7$aRadicalisme 676 $a973.91/092 700 $aVaughan$b Leslie J.$01025901 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485608403321 996 $aRandolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism$92439990 997 $aUNINA