Irving Howe and the critics : celebrations and attacks
"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." "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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803239333, 0803239335
57392686
A man of the Left / Mark Levinson and Brian Morton
Journey of a Social Democrat / Ronald Radosh
An ex-Maoist looks at an ex-Trotskyist : on Howe's Leon Trotsky / Ian Williams
Our "Uncle Irving" : Howe's conservative strain / Samuel Hux
Irving and the New Left : from fighter to leader / Marshall Berman
Irving Howe, R.I.P. : a few tasteless words / Alexander Cockburn
The old people's socialist league / Joseph Epstein
Politics and the critic / Robert Boyers
The socialist who loved Keats / Nathan Glick
A lover of stories / Nicholas Howe
The literary craftsman / Brian Morton
How Irving Howe shaped my thinking life / Paul Roazen
My intellectual hero : Irving Howe's "partisan" Orwell / John Rodden
Howe on Emerson : the politics of literary criticism / William E. Cain
Howe inside my head / George Scialabba
World of our grandparents / Morris Dickstein
Father figures / Leonard Kriegel
Of Yiddish culture and secular Jewishness / Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Standing guard over Irving Howe's reputation, or, Good causes attract bad advocates / Edward Alexander
Irving, in memoriam / Leon Wieseltier
The relevance of Irving Howe / Gerald Sorin
A steady worker / Michael Levenson