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The radical will : selected writings, 1911-1918 /
Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s. This definitive collection, back in...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1992]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Christopher Lasch
- Introduction: Affinity and Ambivalence / Olaf Hansen
- Pt. I. Youth and Life: In Search of A Radical Metaphor. The Handicapped. The Prayer of a Materialist. Sabotage. Youth. The Excitement of Friendship. The Dodging of Pressures. The Life of Irony. The Experimental Life. This Older Generation. Old Tyrannies. The Mystic Turned Radical
- Pt. II. Education and Politics. In a Schoolroom. The Wasted Years. The Cult of the Best. What is Experimental Education. The Democratic School. Class and School. The Undergraduate. Who Owns the Universities. One of Our Conquerors
- Pt. III. Politics, State, and Society. The Doctrine of the Rights of Man as Formulated by Thomas Paine. Transnational America. A Mirror of the Middle West. Emerald Lake. Our Unplanned Cities. The Architect. The Night-Court. What is Exploitation. The "Scientific" Manager. New Ideals in Business. The Price of Radicalism. The Puritan's Will to Power. The War and the Intellectuals.
- A War Diary. John Dewey's Philosophy. Twilight of Idols. Practice vs. Product. Law and Order. The State. The Disillusionment. The Artist in Wartime
- Pt. IV. Portraits, Criticism and the Art of Reviewing. The History of A Literary Radical. Mon Amie. Karen: A Portrait. Fergus. Suffrage and Josella. Theodore Dreiser. The Art of Theodore Dreiser. Paul Elmer More. H.L. Mencken. From an Older Time. Traps for the Unwary. Chivalry and Sin. An Examination of Eminences. The Uses of Infallibility. The Light Essay. Sociological Fiction. Pageantry and Social Art. A Sociological Poet. "A Little Thing of Brunelleschi's" The American Adventure. A Vanishing World of Gentility.