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- catalog abstract "Both a work of rigorous scholarship and a passionate challenge to today's left, Renewing the Left lucidly argues for a reassessment of the legacy of the New York intellectuals as a basis for transforming both the academy and American politics in general. Teres brings fresh thought to such crucial matters as race relations, Jews and blacks, gender troubles on the left, political correctness, values, literary quality, and politics as a means to fulfill personal, spiritual, and ethical needs. Teres deals with all of these matters as he illuminates the legacy of New York's leading intellectuals, beginning with the founding of the influential Partisan Review during the 1930s. He looks first at William Phillips and Philip Rahv, the chief editors of Partisan Review, and shows how they laid the groundwork for a revitalized Marxist criticism - one that rejected dogmatism and narrow materialism, and stressed instead the importance of literary criticism itself and the freedom of the intellectual. Teres carries the discussion into the 1940s, when such critics as Rahv, Lionel Trilling, and F.W. Dupee absorbed modernism and elements of Trotsky's analysis of capitalism and culture in order to renew progressive culture and politics. He examines the contributions of such figures as Wallace Stevens (who published a number of important poems in Partisan Review), Dwight Macdonald, Mary McCarthy, Tess Slesinger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin. He shows how they mounted a prescient critique of doctrinaire Marxism, with its illiberal habits of the mind, and stressed the essential role of independent and imaginative forms of discourse. But Renewing the Left is no paean to radical champions of the past. Teres explores the inability of the New Yorkers to maintain connections to the everyday lives of ordinary people, to keep up with changes in popular culture, to critique American imperialism, to develop balanced assessments of the Beats and the New Left, and to recognize the complexity of African-American culture and experience. Nevertheless, he argues, the New York intellectuals did challenge the left to overcome many of its perennial problems, and this aspect of their project remains immensely valuable for leftist renewal today.".
- catalog contributor b9013587.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Both a work of rigorous scholarship and a passionate challenge to today's left, Renewing the Left lucidly argues for a reassessment of the legacy of the New York intellectuals as a basis for transforming both the academy and American politics in general. Teres brings fresh thought to such crucial matters as race relations, Jews and blacks, gender troubles on the left, political correctness, values, literary quality, and politics as a means to fulfill personal, spiritual, and ethical needs. Teres deals with all of these matters as he illuminates the legacy of New York's leading intellectuals, beginning with the founding of the influential Partisan Review during the 1930s.".
- catalog description "But Renewing the Left is no paean to radical champions of the past. Teres explores the inability of the New Yorkers to maintain connections to the everyday lives of ordinary people, to keep up with changes in popular culture, to critique American imperialism, to develop balanced assessments of the Beats and the New Left, and to recognize the complexity of African-American culture and experience. Nevertheless, he argues, the New York intellectuals did challenge the left to overcome many of its perennial problems, and this aspect of their project remains immensely valuable for leftist renewal today.".
- catalog description "He looks first at William Phillips and Philip Rahv, the chief editors of Partisan Review, and shows how they laid the groundwork for a revitalized Marxist criticism - one that rejected dogmatism and narrow materialism, and stressed instead the importance of literary criticism itself and the freedom of the intellectual. Teres carries the discussion into the 1940s, when such critics as Rahv, Lionel Trilling, and F.W. Dupee absorbed modernism and elements of Trotsky's analysis of capitalism and culture in order to renew progressive culture and politics. He examines the contributions of such figures as Wallace Stevens (who published a number of important poems in Partisan Review), Dwight Macdonald, Mary McCarthy, Tess Slesinger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin. He shows how they mounted a prescient critique of doctrinaire Marxism, with its illiberal habits of the mind, and stressed the essential role of independent and imaginative forms of discourse.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Partisan Review and the Remaking of Radical Criticism. 1. The Antinomies of American Radicalism. 2. Partisan Review's Eliotic Leftism: 1934-1936. 3. Politics and the Autonomous Intellectual. 4. Modernism and the Autonomous Intellectual -- Wartime: The New York Intellectuals in Battle. 5. Modernist Renewal. 6. Notes toward the Supreme Soviet, Wallace Stevens and Doctrinaire Marxism. 7. The Culture Wars of the 1940s: Literature, Popular Culture, and the Battle over a Usable Past -- The Limits and Uses of Criticism. 8. The "Dark Ladies" of New York. 9. "Their Negro Problem": The New York Intellectuals and African American Culture. 10. "Preserving Living Culture": The 1960s and Beyond. 11. What's Left of Lionel Trilling?".
- catalog extent "viii, 326 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Renewing the left.".
- catalog identifier "0195078020 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Renewing the left.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Renewing the left.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "810.9/358 20".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American New York (State) New York Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Criticism New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Imagination.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS228.R34 T47 1996".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Radicalism New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Radicalism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Partisan Review and the Remaking of Radical Criticism. 1. The Antinomies of American Radicalism. 2. Partisan Review's Eliotic Leftism: 1934-1936. 3. Politics and the Autonomous Intellectual. 4. Modernism and the Autonomous Intellectual -- Wartime: The New York Intellectuals in Battle. 5. Modernist Renewal. 6. Notes toward the Supreme Soviet, Wallace Stevens and Doctrinaire Marxism. 7. The Culture Wars of the 1940s: Literature, Popular Culture, and the Battle over a Usable Past -- The Limits and Uses of Criticism. 8. The "Dark Ladies" of New York. 9. "Their Negro Problem": The New York Intellectuals and African American Culture. 10. "Preserving Living Culture": The 1960s and Beyond. 11. What's Left of Lionel Trilling?".
- catalog title "Renewing the left : politics, imagination, and the New York intellectuals / Harvey M. Teres.".
- catalog type "text".