Description: Further DetailsTitle: Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945Condition: NewISBN-10: 0814712320EAN: 9780814712320ISBN: 9780814712320Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/1995Description: A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in general, the established centers of intellectual life. A generation of young intellectuals was increasingly challenging both the genteel tradition and the growing division of intellectual labor. Adversarial and anti-professional, they exhibited a hostility to boundaries and specialization that compelled them toward an ambitious and self-conscious generalism and made them a force in the American political, literary, and artistic landscape. This book is a cultural history of this community of free-lance critics and an exploration of their collective effort to construct a viable public intellectual life in America. Steven Biel illustrates the diversity of the body of writings produced by these critics, whose subjects ranged from literature and fine arts to politics, economics, history, urban planning, and national character. Conceding that significant differences and conflicts did exist in the works of individual thinkers, Biel nonetheless maintains that a broader picture of this vibrant culture has been obscured by attempts to classify intellectuals according to political or ideological persuasions. His book brings to life the ways in which this community sought out alternative ways of making a living, devised strategies for reaching and engaging the public, debated the involvement of women in the intellectual community and incorporated Marxism into its evolving search for a decisive intellectual presence in American life. Examined in this lively study are the role and contributions of such figures as Randolph Bourne, Max Eastman, Crystal Eastman, Walter Lippmann, Margaret Sanger, Van Wyck Brooks, Floyd Dell, Edmund Wilson, Mable Dodge, Paul Rosenfeld, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Malcolm Cowley, Matthew Josephson, John Reed, Waldo Frank, Gilbert Seldes, and Harold Stearns.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 426gAuthor: Steven BielGenre: HistoryBook Series: American Social ExperienceRelease Year: 1995 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945
Title: Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945
ISBN-10: 0814712320
EAN: 9780814712320
ISBN: 9780814712320
Release Date: 02/01/1995
Release Year: 1995
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: United States / 20th Century, General, United States / General
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Steven Biel
Item Width: 6 in
Series: The American Social Experience Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
