Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent American excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and β60s, but has since been derided as elitist and irrelevant. Dwight Macdonald on Culture argues against previous interpretations, offering new perspectives on a figure that grappled with issues of culture that remain ever-pertinent.
Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and β60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passΓ©, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless, Macdonald remains relevant and deserves reconsideration. His detractors, though uncovering many of Macdonaldβs 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. Dwight Macdonald on Culture seeks to amend previous misconceptions, offering new perspectives on a figure who grappled with issues of culture that remain ever-pertinent.
Β«[T]his short but persuasive and excellently researched new study of Macdonaldβs outlook comes from a New York-educated academic of Polish origins, Tadeusz Lewandowski, who [...] has shown an extraordinary gift for close reading of Macdonaldβs Εuvre, including the fugitive essays as well as the books that made Macdonaldβs wider name.Β» (R. J. Stove, The University Bookman, November 2014)
Tadeusz Lewandowski, PhD, teaches at Opole University (Poland). A graduate of the University of Rochester and Opole University, he has taught at the State University of New York, and published a book on Polish/English interlingual errors along with many articles in American and European journals.
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