The New York Intellectuals
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The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York who advocated left-wing, anti-Stalinist political ideas in the mid-20th century. The group is also known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism. Several New York Intellectuals were educated at the City College of New York in the 1930s, and many were associated with the left-wing political journal The Partisan Review and later Commentary and Dissent. Writer Nicholas Lemann has described the New York Intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury". Writers often considered among the New York Intellectuals include Robert Warshow, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Clement Greenberg, Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, and Daniel Bell. Many of the New York Intellectuals have been associated with The New School. Some of them have been seen as key influences on the neoconservative movement.
[edit] References
- The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s
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- to the 1980s, by Alan M. Wald, University of North Carolina Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8078-4169-2
- Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David
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- Laskin, University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 0-226-46893-3
- Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America by Neil Jumonville,
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- University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-06858-0
[edit] External links
- The Failure of the New York Intellectuals by Daniel Silliman in Comment
- Arguing the World, the PBS documentary
