Author | : Randolph Silliman Bourne |
File Size | : 46,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing Company |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 29 March 1999 |
ISBN | : 0872205002 |
Pages | : 197 pages |
War and the Intellectuals by Randolph Silliman Bourne Book PDF Summary
Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him one of the most influential American public intellectuals of the twentieth century and a hero of the American left. The twenty-eight essays in this volume -- among them, 'War and the Intellectuals', the analysis of the warfare state that made Bourne the foremost critic of American entry into World War I, and 'Trans-National America', his manifesto for cultural pluralism in America -- show Bourne at his most passionate and incisive as they trace his search for the true wellsprings of nationalism and American culture.