The intellectuals and the flag /
"The tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide." So writes Todd Gitlin about the aftermath of the Vietnam War in this collection of writings that calls upon intellectuals on the left to once a...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| Colecção: | Columbia international affairs online. Books.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/gitl12492 |
Sumário:
- Three exemplary intellectuals. David Riesman's lonely crowd ; C. Wright Mills, free radical ; Irving Howe's partition
- Two traps and three values. The postmodernist mood ; The antipolitical populism of cultural studies ; The values of media, the values of citizenship, and the values of higher education
- The intellectuals and the flag.