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Radical Legacies - Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States (Paperback)
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Radical Legacies - Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States (Paperback)
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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 (Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, C. Wright Mills,
Angela Davis) and neglected (Randolph Bourne, Mary McCarthy, Paul
Goodman) public intellectuals considers how these figures have
address a range of problems, including the dangers and difficulty
of critical dissent thought during wartime, the contemporary crisis
of the humanities under neoliberalism, the legacy of American
anti-intellectualism, academic professionalism, and the perils of
consumer culture and popular tastes. This book reviews in as
critically sympathetic a manner as possible a select few of the
minor and major currents of twentieth-century American radical
thinking in order to see where they might take us, and how they
inflect our current social and intellectual predicaments. Arguing
that any "use-value" theory of intellectual production is limiting,
Radical Legacies endeavors to maintain and expand a space and
reassert an argument for the importance of sustained critical
reflection on our collective dilemmas today. It assesses a practice
of thought that is engaged, committed, involved, and timely,
without being necessarily "practical" or even useful.
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