Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War : The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom

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This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret patron that paid the bills. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Journals of Freedom? (Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Science and Freedom: The Forgotten Bulletin (Audra J. Wolfe)....Pages 27-44 Consensus, Civility, Community: Minerva and the Vision of Edward Shils (Roy MacLeod)....Pages 45-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Der Monat and the Congress for Cultural Freedom: The High Tide of the Intellectual Cold War, 1948–1971 (Michael Hochgeschwender)....Pages 71-89 The Difficult Emergence of an ‘Anti-Totalitarian’ Journal in Post-War France: Preuves and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (Nicolas Stenger)....Pages 91-106 ‘Our greatest Asset’: Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (Jason Harding)....Pages 107-125 Beyond the Cold War: Tempo Presente in Italy (Chiara Morbi, Paola Carlucci)....Pages 127-147 ‘Vienna is Different’: Friedrich Torberg’s Journal Forum, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and Competing Soft-Power Strategies in the Cold War (Felix Tweraser)....Pages 149-165 Tracking the Bear: Survey (Giles Scott-Smith)....Pages 167-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de Cultura (1953–1965) and the Failure of a Cold War Liberal Project for Latin America (Olga Glondys)....Pages 187-205 Mundo Nuevo: Behind the Scenes of a Spanish Encounter (María Eugenia Mudrovcic)....Pages 207-223 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (Elizabeth M. Holt)....Pages 227-242 Black Orpheus and the African Magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (Asha Rogers)....Pages 243-259 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Japan’s CCF Affiliate, Jiyû, and Covert Public Diplomacy (Ann Sherif)....Pages 263-284 Quest: Twenty Years of Cultural Politics (Eric Pullin)....Pages 285-301 Quadrant: The Evolution of an Australian Conservative Journal (John Chiddick)....Pages 303-320 Back Matter ....Pages 321-331