TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tadeusz Lewandowski
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653024289
TI  - Dwight Macdonald on Culture
T2  - The Happy Warrior of the Mind, Reconsidered
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02428-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046336
N2  - 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.
KW  - American mass culture, American intellectual history, Modernist art and literature, Left-wing American politics
LA  - English
ER  -