Irving Howe and the Critics
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Irving Howe and the Critics

Celebrations and Attacks

  1. 237 pages
  2. English
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Irving Howe and the Critics

Celebrations and Attacks

About this book

Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920–93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more, wrote dozens of articles and reviews, and edited the magazine Dissent for forty years after founding it. His writings cover subjects ranging from U.S. labor to the vicissitudes of American communism and socialism to Yiddishkeit and contemporary politics. His book World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. John Rodden has chosen essays and reviews that focus on Howe's major works and on the disputes they generated. He features both Dissent contributors and those who have dissented from the Dissenters—on the Right as well as the Left. Rodden includes a few stern assessments of Howe from his less sympathetic critics, testifying not only to the range of response—from admiration to hostility—that his work received but also to his stature on the Left as a prime intellectual target of neoconservative fire.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. Socialist
  7. 1. Mark Levinson and Brian Morton, A Man of the Left
  8. 2. Ronald Radosh, Journey of a Social Democrat
  9. 3. Ian Williams, An Ex-Maoist Looks at an Ex-Trotskyist: On Howe’s Leon Trotsky
  10. 4. Samuel Hux, Our “Uncle Irving”: Howe’s Conservative Strain
  11. 5. Marshall Berman, Irving and the New Left: From Fighter to Leader
  12. 6. Alexander Cockburn, Irving Howe, R.I.P.: A Few Tasteless Words
  13. 7. Joseph Epstein, The Old People’s Socialist League
  14. Critic
  15. 8. Robert Boyers, Politics and the Critic
  16. 9. Nathan Glick, The Socialist Who Loved Keats
  17. 10. Nicholas Howe, A Lover of Stories
  18. 11. Brian Morton, The Literary Craftsman
  19. 12. Paul Roazen, How Irving Howe Shaped My Thinking Life
  20. 13. John Rodden, “My Intellectual Hero”: Irving Howe’s “Partisan” Orwell
  21. 14. William E. Cain, Howe on Emerson: The Politics of Literary Criticism
  22. 15. George Scialabba, Howe Inside My Head
  23. Jew
  24. 16. Morris Dickstein, World of Our Grandparents
  25. 17. Leonard Kriegel, Father Figures
  26. 18. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Of Yiddish Culture and Secular Jewishness
  27. 19. Edward Alexander, Standing Guard over Irving Howe’s Reputation; Or, Good Causes Attract Bad Advocates
  28. 20. Leon Wieseltier, Irving, In Memoriam
  29. Revaluations
  30. 21. Gerald Sorin, The Relevance of Irving Howe
  31. 22. Michael Levenson, A SteadyWorker
  32. Morris Dickstein, Afterword: Irving Howe: Finding the Right Words
  33. John Rodden, Appendix: Wanted by the FBI: No. 727437B a.k.a. Irving Horenstein
  34. Source Acknowledgments
  35. Index