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Taking It Big - C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (Paperback)
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Taking It Big - C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (Paperback)
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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.
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