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A Voice Still Heard
Irving Howe
其他書名
Selected Essays of Irving Howe
出版
Yale University Press
, 2014-10-28
主題
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / American / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
ISBN
0300210582
9780300210583
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3u-uBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America’s most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe’s work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the
New York
Review of Books
, the
New Republic
, and the
Nation
. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of Howe’s enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, Judaism, and the tumults of American society.
A Voice Still Heard
is essential to the understanding of the passionate and skeptical spirit of this lucid writer. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It shows how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. Howe’s voice is ever sharp, relentless, often scathingly funny, revealing Howe as that rarest of critics—a real reader and writer, one whose clarity of style is a result of his disciplined and candid mind.