Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / / Arthur Redding
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| Autore: |
Redding Arthur F. <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / / Arthur Redding
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (171 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.530973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intellectuals - United States - History - 20th century |
| Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century | |
| War and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Dissenters - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Criticism - History - 20th century | |
| Radicals - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Radical legacies |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-1267-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797804403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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