Dwight Macdonald

Masscult and Midcult

Essays Against the American Grain

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A New York Review Books OriginalAn uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America's susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon Midcult and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free.This new selecti… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Summers, John (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-59017-468-5
EAN: 9781590174685
Produktnummer: 15734658
Verlag: New York Review Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 485 KB

Über den Autor

Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was born in New York City and educated at Exeter and Yale. On graduating from college, he enrolled in Macy's executive training program, but soon left towork for Henry Luce at Time and Fortune, quitting in 1936 because of cuts that had been made to an article he had written criticizing U.S. Steel. From 1937 to 1943, Macdonald was an editorof Partisan Review and in 1944, he started a journal of his own, Politics, whose contributors included Albert Camus, Victor Serge, Simone Weil, Bruno Bettelheim, James Agee, John Berryman, Meyer Schapiro, and Mary McCarthy. In later years, Macdonald reviewed books for The New Yorker, movies for Esquire, and wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books.John Summers is the editor of The Baffler.Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas.