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Dwight Macdonald on culture : the happy warrior of the mind, reconsidered

By Dwight , Lewandowski , Tadeusz; Macdonald , Dwight; Macdonald

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2013
ISBN
3631626908, 978-3-631-62690-0, 9781299675773, 1299675778, 978-3-653-02428-9, 3653024285
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02428-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1740243 bytes)
Series
Katowice interdisciplinary and comparative studies literature anthropology and culture 3
Edition
1
Pages
147\149
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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

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