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New York Intellectuals, the Glossary

The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century.^[1]

57 relations: Alfred Kazin, Anti-Stalinist left, Bloomsbury Group, City College of New York, Clement Greenberg, Columbia University, Commentary (magazine), Communism, Daniel Bell, Delmore Schwartz, Diana Trilling, Dissent (American magazine), Dwight Macdonald, Elliot E. Cohen, Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt, Harold Rosenberg, Harvard University, Harvey Swados, Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Isaac Rosenfeld, Left-wing politics, Leslie Fiedler, Lionel Abel, Lionel Trilling, Literary theory, Marxism, Mary McCarthy (author), Midge Decter, Morris Dickstein, Nathan Glazer, Neoconservatism, New York City, New York University, Nicholas Lemann, Norman Birnbaum, Norman Mailer, Norman Podhoretz, Partisan Review, Paul Goodman, PBS, Philip Rahv, Richard Hofstadter, Robert Fulford (journalist), Robert Warshow, Saul Bellow, Seymour Martin Lipset, Sidney Hook, ... Expand index (7 more) »
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Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic.

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The anti-Stalinist left is a term that refers to various kinds of Marxist political movements that oppose Joseph Stalin, Stalinism, Neo-Stalinism and the system of governance that Stalin implemented as leader of the Soviet Union between 1924 and 1953.

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Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.

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Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, Israel and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

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Diana Trilling

Diana Trilling (née Rubin; July 21, 1905 – October 23, 1996) was an American literary critic and author, one of a group of left-wing writers known as the New York Intellectuals.

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Dissent (American magazine)

Dissent is an American Left intellectual magazine founded in 1954.

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Dwight Macdonald

Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist. New York Intellectuals and Dwight Macdonald are anti-Stalinist left.

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Elliot E. Cohen

Elliot E. Cohen (March 14, 1899 – May 28, 1959) was the founder and first editor of Commentary.

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Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy.

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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher.

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Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 – July 11, 1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvey Swados

Harvey Swados (October 28, 1920 – December 11, 1972) was an American social critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and journalism.

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Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted a more liberal form of socialism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Marxism–Leninism, a form of socialism consisting of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state that aimed to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Irving Howe

Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Irving Kristol

Irving William Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American journalist and writer.

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Isaac Rosenfeld

Isaac Rosenfeld (March 10, 1918 - July 14, 1956 This article also has details about Rosenfeld's upbringing, parents, siblings, wife and children.) was an American writer who became a prominent member of New York intellectual circles.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction.

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Lionel Abel

Lionel Abel (28 November 1910- 19 April 2001, in Manhattan, New York)Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.

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Literary theory

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel ''The Group'', her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.

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Midge Decter

Midge Decter (née Rosenthal; July 25, 1927 – May 9, 2022) was an American journalist and author.

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Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein (February 23, 1940 – March 24, 2021) was an American literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public intellectual.

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Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University.

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Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s during the Vietnam War among foreign policy hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic, and is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Norman Birnbaum

Norman Birnbaum (July 21, 1926 – January 4, 2019) was an American sociologist.

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Norman Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz (born January 16, 1930) is an American magazine editor, writer, and conservative political commentator, who identifies his views as "paleo-neoconservative", but only "because (he's) been one for so long".

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Partisan Review

Partisan Review (PR) was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.

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Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Philip Rahv

Philip Rahv (March 10, 1908 in Kupin, Russian Empire – December 22, 1973 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American literary critic and essayist.

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.

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Robert Fulford (journalist)

Robert Marshall Blount Fulford (born February 13, 1932) is a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and essayist.

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Robert Warshow

Robert Warshow (1917–1955) was an American author associated with the New York Intellectuals.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.

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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist.

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Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of pragmatism known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics. New York Intellectuals and Sidney Hook are anti-Stalinist left.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Lee Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. New York Intellectuals and Trotskyism are anti-Stalinist left.

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William Barrett (philosopher)

William Christopher Barrett (1913– September 8, 1992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979, and later at Pace University.

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William Phillips (editor)

William Phillips (November 14, 1907 – September 13, 2002) was an American editor, writer and public intellectual who co-founded Partisan Review.

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The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded in 1907, was the official youth arm of the Socialist Party of America.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Intellectuals

Also known as The New York Intellectuals.

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