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Taking it big [[electronic resource] ] : C. Wright Mills and the making of political intellectuals / / Stanley Aronowitz



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Autore: Aronowitz Stanley Visualizza persona
Titolo: Taking it big [[electronic resource] ] : C. Wright Mills and the making of political intellectuals / / Stanley Aronowitz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 302.12
Soggetto topico: Social psychology - United States
Social structure - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Overview -- 1. Mills's Sociology and Pragmatism -- 2. Mills and the New York Intellectuals -- 3. On Mills's The New Men of Power -- 4. White Collar -- 5. On Social Psychology and Its Historical Contexts: The Origin of Psychology as an Independent Discipline -- 6. The Structure of Power in American Society -- 7. What Is a Political Intellectual? -- 8. Taking It Big -- Afterword: Mills Today -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: C. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Taking it big  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-50950-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779117903321
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