The Intellectuals and the Flag

Todd Gitlin

Paper, 192 pages,
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January, 2006
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Introduction: From Great Refusal to Political Retreat

I. Three Exemplary Intellectuals

1. David Riesman’s Lonely Crowd

2. C. Wright Mills, Free Radical

3. Irving Howe’s Partition

II. Two Traps and Three Values

4. The Postmodernist Mood

5. The Antipolitical Populism of Cultural Studies

6. The Values of Media, Citizenship, and Higher Education

III. The Intellectuals and the Flag

Acknowledgments

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Politics
• Political Theory

About the Author

Sociologist, journalist, and public intellectual Todd Gitlin is professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of ten previous books, including The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; The Whole World is Watching; and Letters to a Young Activist.

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