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Radical Legacies

- Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States
Af: Arthur Redding Engelsk Paperback

Radical Legacies

- Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States
Af: Arthur Redding Engelsk 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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 172
ISBN-13: 9781498512688
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1498512682
Kategori: Litterære essays
Udg. Dato: 7 aug 2017
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 233mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 7 aug 2017
Forfatter(e): Arthur Redding
Forfatter(e) Arthur Redding

Kategori Litterære essays

ISBN-13 9781498512688

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 172

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 233mm

Højde 156mm

Udg. Dato 7 aug 2017

Oplagsdato 7 aug 2017

Forlag Lexington Books