A Moral Temper
- 512pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
A bountiful selection of letters from Dwight Macdonald, one of the crankiest and shrewdest observers of American life in the 20th century. These letters sing.-New York Times Book Review. schovat popis
Dwight Macdonald Libri
Dwight Macdonald fu uno scrittore americano e un pensatore politico radicale. Come membro di spicco degli intellettuali newyorkesi, in particolare come redattore della Partisan Review, si dedicò a una profonda critica sociale e culturale. Il suo stile saggistico era caratterizzato da un acuto intelletto e da un approccio intransigente nell'analizzare la società e la cultura americana. Macdonald si concentrò sui temi della cultura di massa, della politica e del ruolo dell'intellettuale nella società.
Masscult and Midcult
- 291pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
A New York Review Books Original An 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 selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
