Intellectuals in Action : : The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945–1970 / / Kevin Mattson.
Born in 1966‚ a generation removed from the counterculture‚ Kevin Mattson came of political age in the conservative Reagan era. In an effort to understand contemporary political ambivalence and the plight of radicalism today‚ Mattson looks back to the ideas that informed the protest‚ social movement...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Go Back?
- 1 A Preface to the politics of Intellectual Life in Postwar America: The Possibility of New Left Beginnings
- 2 The Godfather, C. Wright Mills: The Intellectual as Agent
- 3 Paul Goodman, Anarchist Reformer: The Politics of Decentralization
- 4 William Appleman Williams, Republican Leftist: History as Political Lesson
- 5 Arnold Kaufman, Radical Liberal: Liberalism Rediscovered
- 6 Studies on the Left and New University Thought: Lessons Learned and Disintegrations
- Conclusion: Lost Causes, Radical Liberalism, and the Future
- Selected Bibliography
- Index