Gathers essays written during the sixties by such people as Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, Eldridge Cleaver, and others about the changes in art, politics, and the media during that decade
Dwight Macdonald Bücher
Dwight Macdonald war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und radikaler politischer Denker. Als prominentes Mitglied der New Yorker Intellektuellen, insbesondere als Herausgeber der Partisan Review, widmete er sich tiefgreifender sozialer und kultureller Kritik. Sein essayistischer Stil zeichnete sich durch scharfen Intellekt und einen kompromisslosen Ansatz bei der Analyse der amerikanischen Gesellschaft und Kultur aus. Macdonald konzentrierte sich auf Themen der Massenkultur, der Politik und der Rolle des Intellektuellen in der Gesellschaft.
Masscult and Midcult
- 291 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
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.