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Irving Howe--Socialist, Critic, Jew
For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to Yiddish literature, the State of Israel, the condition of the American academy, and New York cultural and literary life. Best known for his prize-winning history of American Jewish immigrant culture, "World of Our Fathers," Howe was an outspoken socialist as well as founder and editor of the democratic socialist magazine "Dissent." Through a clear, eloquent, and forcefully argued study of Howe's politics, writings, and thought, Edward Alexander constructs a sympathetic yet critical intellectual biography of this complex individual.
Book Details
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 22nd, 1998
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.41in - 1.14in - 1.36lb
- EAN: 9780253333643
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Historical
About the Author
Edward Alexander is Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper; The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate; Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Study of the Short Fiction; and The Holocaust and the War of Ideas.