LEADER 03905nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910779117903321 005 20230126202844.0 010 $a0-231-50950-2 024 7 $a10.7312/aron13540 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105141 035 $a(EBL)909456 035 $a(OCoLC)818856796 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12247920 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693410 035 $a(PQKB)10569249 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000087853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909456 035 $a(DE-B1597)458613 035 $a(OCoLC)979744802 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509503 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579950 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684999 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105141 100 $a20111107d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaking it big$b[electronic resource] $eC. Wright Mills and the making of political intellectuals /$fStanley Aronowitz 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13541-6 311 $a0-231-13540-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction and Overview --$t1. Mills's Sociology and Pragmatism --$t2. Mills and the New York Intellectuals --$t3. On Mills's The New Men of Power --$t4. White Collar --$t5. On Social Psychology and Its Historical Contexts: The Origin of Psychology as an Independent Discipline --$t6. The Structure of Power in American Society --$t7. What Is a Political Intellectual? --$t8. Taking It Big --$tAfterword: Mills Today --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aC. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist and critic of American culture and politics, Taking It Big reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.Aronowitz revisits Mills's education and its role in shaping his outlook and intellectual restlessness. Mills defined himself as a maverick, and Aronowitz tests this claim (which has been challenged in recent years) against the work and thought of his contemporaries. Aronowitz describes Mills's growing circle of contacts among the New York Intellectuals and his efforts to reenergize the Left by encouraging a fundamentally new theoretical orientation centered on more ambitious critiques of U.S. society. Blurring the rigid boundaries among philosophy, history, and social theory and between traditional orthodoxies and the radical imagination, Mills became one of the most admired and controversial thinkers of his time and was instrumental in inspiring the student and antiwar movements of the 1960s. In this book, Aronowitz not only reclaims this critical thinker's reputation but also emphasizes his ongoing significance to debates on power in American democracy. 606 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States 606 $aSocial structure$zUnited States 615 0$aSocial psychology 615 0$aSocial structure 676 $a302.12 700 $aAronowitz$b Stanley$0679683 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779117903321 996 $aTaking it big$93766732 997 $aUNINA