Dwight Macdonald on Culture
The Happy Warrior of the Mind, Reconsidered
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ISBN-13:
9783631626900
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
25.04.2013
Seiten:
148
Autor:
Tadeusz Lewandowski
Gewicht:
313 g
Format:
216x153x12 mm
Serie:
3, Katowice Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and '60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless, Macdonald remains relevant and deserves reconsideration. His detractors, though uncovering many of Macdonald's failings, have in part misunderstood him, while the field of cultural studies has misclassified his essays in the radical rather than conservative tradition of criticism. Dwight Macdonald on Culture seeks to amend previous misconceptions, offering new perspectives on a figure who grappled with issues of culture that remain ever-pertinent.
Exklusives Verkaufsrecht für: Gesamte Welt.
Contents: Dwight Macdonald - Mass Culture - Cultural Studies - A Theory of Popular Culture - A Theory of Mass Culture - Masscult and Midcult - Partisan Review - Matthew Arnold - Ortega Y Gasset - Frankfurt School - Max Horkheimer - Theodor Adorno - Clement Greenberg - T. S. Eliot - Gilbert Seldes - Daniel Bell - Edward Shils.
Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent American excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and '60s, but has since been derided as elitist and irrelevant. Dwight Macdonald on Culture argues against previous interpretations, offering new perspectives on a figure that grappled with issues of culture that remain ever-pertinent.