New York Intellectuals
Mid-20th-century American writers and critics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics but were also firmly anti-Stalinist. The group is known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism and socialism while rejecting Soviet socialism as a workable or acceptable political model.
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Trotskyism emerged as the most common standpoint among these anti-Stalinist Marxists. Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler, and Nathan Glazer were members of the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League.[1]
Many of these intellectuals were educated at City College of New York ("Harvard of the Proletariat"),[2] New York University, and Columbia University in the 1930s,[citation needed] and associated in the next two decades with the left-wing political journals Partisan Review, Dissent, and the then-left-wing but later neoconservative-leaning journal Commentary.[citation needed] Writer Nicholas Lemann has described these intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury".[citation needed]
Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz, later became key figures in the development of neoconservatism.[3]
Members
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Writers often identified as members of this group include:
- Lionel Abel
- Hannah Arendt
- William Barrett
- Daniel Bell[4][5][6]
- Saul Bellow (despite his usual association with the city of Chicago)
- Norman Birnbaum[citation needed]
- Elliot E. Cohen
- Midge Decter
- Morris Dickstein[7]
- Leslie Fiedler
- Nathan Glazer[citation needed]
- Clement Greenberg[8]
- Paul Goodman[9]
- Richard Hofstadter
- Sidney Hook[10][11]
- Irving Howe
- Alfred Kazin
- Irving Kristol
- Norman Mailer[12]
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Mary McCarthy[13][11]
- Dwight Macdonald[8]
- William Phillips
- Norman Podhoretz[citation needed]
- Philip Rahv
- Harold Rosenberg
- Isaac Rosenfeld
- Delmore Schwartz[9]
- Susan Sontag
- Harvey Swados
- Diana Trilling
- Lionel Trilling
- Robert Warshow[citation needed]
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