American Cultural Critics
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
304 pages
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9 x 5-7/10
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© 1996
This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism. Concentrating on writing since 1940, the essays examine the central themes of American postwar intellectual history, including the continuing reaction to (or against) modernity and technology, the legacies of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and the re-examination of American founding principles and figures in conservative or liberal terms.
Borderlines: Studies in American Culture
“Each essay exposes stronger connections than one might imagine between the lives and writings of some of America's important critics. What is nice about the entire collection is that each essay spends more time on history and biography than critical analysis.” –Borderlines: Studies in American Culture, Vol.4 , No. 1 (1997)
Contents
Introduction by David Murray
1. Southern Literary and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: The Agrarians to Richard Weaver by Michael Kreylong
2. The Agony of the Avant-Garde: Philip Rhav and the New York Intellectuals by Hugh Wilford
3. F.O.Matthiessen's "Devotion to the Possibilities of Democracy" and his Place as an American Intellectual by Richard Bradbury
4. Susan Sontag: The Intellectual and Cultural Criticism by Liam Kennedy
5. Stanley Cavell: Must We Believe What We Say? by Michael Wood
6. The Person in Place: Lewis Mumford, Pioneer of Cultural Criticism by Clive Bush)
7. Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead and Karen Horney by Helen Carr
8. Erik H.Erikson's Critical Themes and Voices: The Task of Synthesis by Lawrence J. Friedman
9. Philip Rieff by Jerry Z. Muller
10. Hannah Arendt by Richard H. King
11. Garry Willis by Stephen J. Whitfield
13. Culture at Modernity's End: Daniel Bell and Fredric Jameson by Nick Heffernan
Index
1. Southern Literary and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: The Agrarians to Richard Weaver by Michael Kreylong
2. The Agony of the Avant-Garde: Philip Rhav and the New York Intellectuals by Hugh Wilford
3. F.O.Matthiessen's "Devotion to the Possibilities of Democracy" and his Place as an American Intellectual by Richard Bradbury
4. Susan Sontag: The Intellectual and Cultural Criticism by Liam Kennedy
5. Stanley Cavell: Must We Believe What We Say? by Michael Wood
6. The Person in Place: Lewis Mumford, Pioneer of Cultural Criticism by Clive Bush)
7. Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead and Karen Horney by Helen Carr
8. Erik H.Erikson's Critical Themes and Voices: The Task of Synthesis by Lawrence J. Friedman
9. Philip Rieff by Jerry Z. Muller
10. Hannah Arendt by Richard H. King
11. Garry Willis by Stephen J. Whitfield
13. Culture at Modernity's End: Daniel Bell and Fredric Jameson by Nick Heffernan
Index
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