| Title | : | Dwight MacDonald on Culture: The Happy Warrior of the Mind, Reconsidered (Katowice Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies) |
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| ISBN | : | 3653024285 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9783653024289 |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 147 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2013 |
Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and '60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless, Macdonald deserves reconsideration. His detractors, though uncovering many of Macdonald's failings, have in part misunderstood him, while the field of cultural studies has misclassified his essays in the radical rather than conservative tradition of criticism.
