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Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / Arthur Redding

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Redding, Arthur F., 1964-
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Lanham : Lexington Books, 2015.
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Contents
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.
Summary
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
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9781498512671 (electronic bk.)
1498512674 (electronic bk.)
9781498512664
1498512666
9781498512688
1498512682
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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