1st Edition
Writers and Politics A Partisan Review Reader
Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Writers and Politics Part I: Literary and Political Theories Introduction 1. Tradition and the Modern Age Hannah Arendt 2. Art and Revolt Albert Camus 3. Art and Politics Leon Trotsky 4. The Idea of Avant-Garde Richard Gilman 5. The Intelligentsia Arthur Koestler 6. Toward a Portrait of the French Intellectual Victor Brombert 7. Modernism and Capitalism Daniel Bell Part II: Political Emphases Introduction 8. Reading from Left to Right Dwight Macdonald 9. Murti-Bing Czeslaw Milosz 10. Radical Questions and the American Intellectual Irving Howe 11. Old and New Classes Edith Kurzweil Part III: Emphasis on Literature and Art Introduction 12. The Intellectual Tradition William Phillips 13. Writers and Politics Stephen Spender 14. Protest in Art Barbara Rose Part IV: Writers Political Documents Introduction 15. Sartre versus Camus: A Political Quarrel Nicola Chiaromonte16. Yugoslav Report Susan Sontag 17. Cold War Blues: Notes On the Culture of the Fifties Morris Dickstein 18. While America Burns William Barrett and William Phillips 19. Neoconservatism: Pro and Con Nathan Glazer, Peter Steinfels, James Q. Wilson, and Norman Birnbaum
Biography
Edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips
