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- The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of dissident Marxist thought, Jewish internationalism, fervent political activism, and the complex art of the literary imagination is enriched by more than one hundred personal interviews, unparalleled primary research, and critical interpretations of novels and short stories depicting the inner lives of committed writers and thinkers. Wald's commanding biographical portraits of rebel outsiders who mostly became insiders retains its resonance today and includes commentary on Max Eastman, Elliot Cohen, Lionel Trilling, Sidney Hook, Tess Slesinger, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Hannah Arendt, and more. With a new preface by the author that tracks the rebounding influence of these intellectuals in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders, this anniversary edition shows that the trajectory and ideological ordeals of the New York intellectual Left still matters today.
Table of Contents
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- Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- pp. ix-xxviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxix-xxxiv
- A Note on the Text and the Illustrations
- pp. xxxv-xxxvi
- Introduction: Political Amnesia
- pp. 3-24
- Part I: Origins of the Anti-Stalinist Left
- Chapter 1. Jewish Internationalists
- pp. 27-45
- Chapter 2. Dissident Communists
- pp. 46-74
- Chapter 3. Radical Modernists
- pp. 75-98
- Part II: Revolutionary Intellectuals
- Chapter 4. Philosophers and Revolutionists
- pp. 101-127
- Chapter 5. The Moscow Trials
- pp. 128-163
- Chapter 6. Cannonites and Shachtmanites
- pp. 164-214
- Chapter 7. The Second Imperialist War
- pp. 215-247
- Part III: The Great Retreat
- Chapter 9. Apostates and True Believers
- pp. 289-332
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469635965
Related ISBN(s)
9781469635941, 9781469635958, 9798890854964
MARC Record
OCLC
1007132590
Pages
504
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-08
Language
English
Open Access
No