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The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945
Cosmopolitan visions
Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review?often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America?during its formative years, giving a lucid and dispassionate view of the magazine and its luminaries who played a leading role in shaping the public discourse of American intellectuals. Included are Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Dwight Macdonald, F. W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy, Sidney Hook, Harold Rosenberg, and Delmore Schwartz, among others.
“An excellent book, which works at each level on which it operates. It succeeds as a straightforward narrative account of the Partisan Review in the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine’s leading voices?William Phillips, Philip Rahv, Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Trilling, and all the rest?receive their due. . . . Among the themes that engage Cooney. . . . how they dealt with ?modernism’ in culture and radicalism in politics, each on its own and in combination; how Jewishness played a complex and fascinating role in many of the thinkers’ lives; and, especially, how ?cosmopolitanism’ best explains what the Partisan Review was all about.”?Robert Booth Fowler, Journal of American History
Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review?often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America?during its formative years, giving a lucid and dispassionate view of the magazine and its luminaries who played a leading role in shaping the public discourse of American intellectuals. Included are Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Dwight Macdonald, F. W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy, Sidney Hook, Harold Rosenberg, and Delmore Schwartz, among others.
“An excellent book, which works at each level on which it operates. It succeeds as a straightforward narrative account of the Partisan Review in the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine’s leading voices?William Phillips, Philip Rahv, Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Trilling, and all the rest?receive their due. . . . Among the themes that engage Cooney. . . . how they dealt with ?modernism’ in culture and radicalism in politics, each on its own and in combination; how Jewishness played a complex and fascinating role in many of the thinkers’ lives; and, especially, how ?cosmopolitanism’ best explains what the Partisan Review was all about.”?Robert Booth Fowler, Journal of American History
350 pages, Hardcover
First published October 5, 1986
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February 3, 2014
I wish this book had been written by 1962, when I arrived at Barnard College and had only a dim view of what importance (to this crowd, of whom various were on the faculties at Columbia University) this history had. Even then, several of my colleges (male) had heated views on Lionel Trilling which. it beng the 60s, I could not relate to, all the protagonists being famously over 30. Now I am somewhat better informed and better for it, I assume. Useful background for my political youth.
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