New York Intellectuals
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:More footnotes The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics, being firmly anti-Stalinist. The group is known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism and socialism while rejecting Soviet socialism as a workable or acceptable political model.
Trotskyism emerged as the most common standpoint among these anti-Stalinist Marxists. Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler, and Nathan Glazer were members of the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League.[1]
Many of these intellectuals were educated at City College of New York ("Harvard of the Proletariat"),[2] New York University, and Columbia University in the 1930s,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and associated in the next two decades with the left-wing political journals Partisan Review, Dissent, and the then-left-wing but later neoconservative-leaning journal Commentary.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Writer Nicholas Lemann has described these intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz, later became key figures in the development of neoconservatism.[3]
Members
Template:Refimprove section Writers often identified as members of this group include:
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- Lionel Abel
- Hannah Arendt
- William Barrett
- Daniel Bell[4][5][6]
- Saul Bellow (despite his usual association with the city of Chicago)
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- Elliot E. Cohen
- Midge Decter
- Morris Dickstein[7]
- Leslie Fiedler
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- Richard Hofstadter
- Sidney Hook[8][9]
- Irving Howe
- Alfred Kazin
- Irving Kristol
- Norman Mailer[10]
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Mary McCarthy[11][9]
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- Philip Rahv
- Harold Rosenberg
- Isaac Rosenfeld
- Delmore SchwartzTemplate:Sfn
- Susan Sontag
- Harvey Swados
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See also
References
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- ↑ Alexander Bloom: Prodigal Sons. The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press: NY / Oxford 1986, p. 109.
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- ↑ a b Michael HOCHGESCHWENDER "The cultural front of the Cold War: the Congress for cultural freedom as an experiment in transnational warfare" Ricerche di storia politica, issue 1/2003, pp. 35-60
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Bibliography
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- Bloom, Alexander. Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press, 1986, Template:ISBN
- Cooney, Terry A. The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, Template:ISBN
- Dorman, Joseph. Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words. New York: Free Press, 2000. Template:ISBN.
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- Jumonville, Neil. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America, University of California Press, 1991, Template:ISBN
- Laskin, David. Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals University of Chicago Press, 2001, Template:ISBN
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Further reading
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External links
- Lives of the New York intellectuals by Robert Fulford in The Globe and Mail
- The Failure of the New York Intellectuals by Daniel Silliman in Comment
- Arguing the World, a PBS documentary