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The New York Intellectuals Reader (Hardcover)
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The New York Intellectuals Reader (Hardcover)
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In the early 1930??'s in a small alcove at City College in New York
a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students
argued for hours about the finer points of Marxist doctrine, the
true nature of socialism, and whether or not Stalin or Trotsky was
the true heir to Lenin. These young intellectuals went on to write
for and found some of the most well known political and literary
journals of the 20th century such as The Masses, Politics, Partisan
Review, Encounter, Commentary, Dissent and The Public Interest.
Figures such as Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, Susan
Sontag, Dwight MacDonald, and Seymour Lipset penned some of the
most important books of social science in the mid-twentieth
century. They believed, above all else, in the importance of
argument and the power of the pen. They were incredibly prolific,
and their debates ranged over a wide array of topics everything
from McCarthyism and anti-communism to the significance of
modernism in art and literature, to mass culture and the role of
kitsch. They were a vibrant group of engaged political thinkers and
writers, but most importantly they were public intellectuals
committed to addressing the most important political, social and
cultural questions of the day. They have been the subject of many
books and even a widely acclaimed documentary on PBS, but never
have their most significant writings been collected in one place.
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