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The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics, being firmly anti-Stalinist. The group is known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism and socialism while rejecting Soviet socialism as a workable or acceptable political model.
Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler, and Nathan Glazer were members of the Young People's Socialist League, under the influence of Max Shachtman.[1][verify]
Many of these intellectuals were educated at City College of New York ("Harvard of the Proletariat"),[2] New York University, and Columbia University in the 1930s,[citation needed] and associated in the next two decades with the left-wing political journals Partisan Review, Dissent, and the then-left-wing[3][4] but later neoconservative-leaning journal Commentary.[5] Writer Nicholas Lemann has described these intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury."[3]
Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz,[a] later became key figures in the development of neoconservatism.[6]
Members
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Writers often identified as members of this group include:
- Lionel Abel
- Hannah Arendt
- William Barrett
- Daniel Bell[7][8][9][10]
- Saul Bellow (despite his usual association with the city of Chicago)
- Norman Birnbaum[citation needed]
- Anatole Broyard[10]
- Elliot E. Cohen
- Lewis Coser[10]
- Rose Coser[10]
- Midge Decter
- Morris Dickstein[11]
- Leslie Fiedler
- Herbert Gans[10]
- Nathan Glazer[4]
- Clement Greenberg[12]
- Paul Goodman[13]
- Michael Harrington[10]
- Gertrude Himmelfarb[10]
- Richard Hofstadter
- Sidney Hook[14][15]
- Irving Howe[10]
- Alfred Kazin
- Irving Kristol[10]
- Norman Mailer[16]
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Mary McCarthy[17][15][3]
- Dwight Macdonald[12]
- William Phillips
- Norman Podhoretz[3]
- Philip Rahv
- Harold Rosenberg
- Isaac Rosenfeld
- Bayard Rustin[10]
- Delmore Schwartz[13]
- Susan Sontag
- Harvey Swados
- Diana Trilling
- Lionel Trilling[3]
- Robert Warshow[18]
See also
[edit]- Anti-Stalinist left
- Communism
- Frankfurt School
- Trotskyism
- Neoconservatism
- Bloomsbury Group
- New Philosophers
- Partisan Review
- Commentary Magazine
- The New Yorker
- Encounters Magazine
Notes
[edit]- ^ Podhoretz and managing editor of Commentary and leaning toward neoconservatism is dealt with in: Lerner, 2011, p.165-166. See References.
References
[edit]- ^ Alexander Bloom: Prodigal Sons. The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press: NY / Oxford 1986, pp. 109, 134.
- ^ Leonhardt, David (January 18, 2017). "America's Great Working-Class Colleges". New York Times. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Lemann, Nicholas (November 1, 1986). "America's Bloomsbury". Washington Monthly Magazine. Archived from the original on February 23, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2026.
- ^ a b Greenberg, David (December 29, 2019). "Nathan Glazer: The Public Intellectual Who Kept an Open Mind". Politico Magazine. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved August 14, 2026.
- ^ Lerner, Saul. Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right, by Benjamin Balint. Shofar 29, no. 4 (2011): 164–67. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/shofar.29.4.164.
- ^ Hartman, Andrew (2015). A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226379234.
- ^ Wald, Alan M. (1987). The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. UNC Press Books. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8078-4169-3. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- ^ Brick, Howard (1986). Daniel Bell and the decline of intellectual radicalism : social theory and political reconciliation in the 1940s. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 60-61,90,148. ISBN 978-0-299-10550-1. OCLC 12804502.
- ^ Wilford, Hugh (2003). "Playing the CIA's Tune? The New Leader and the Cultural Cold War". Diplomatic History. 27 (1). Oxford University Press (OUP): 15–34. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00337. ISSN 0145-2096.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kasinitz, Philip (2019). "The Sociologist as Intellectual". City & Community. 18 (2): 433–438. doi:10.1111/cico.12401. ISSN 1535-6841. Retrieved March 13, 2026.
- ^ Roberts, Sam (March 29, 2021). "Morris Dickstein, Critic and Cultural Historian, Dies at 81". New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ a b Howe 1970, p. 226.
- ^ a b Howe 1970, p. 228.
- ^ Wald, Alan M. (1987). The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. UNC Press Books. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8078-4169-3. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- ^ a b Michael HOCHGESCHWENDER "The cultural front of the Cold War: the Congress for cultural freedom as an experiment in transnational warfare" Ricerche di storia politica, issue 1/2003, pp. 35-60
- ^ Jumonville, Neil (1991). Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. University of California Press. p. 187. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Wald, Alan M. (1987). The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. UNC Press Books. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8078-4169-3. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- ^ Gewen, Barry (October 15, 2008). "A Casual Libel". Archive. The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2026.
Bibliography
[edit]- Bloom, Alexander. Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 0-19-503662-X
- Cooney, Terry A. The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, ISBN 0-299-10710-8
- Dorman, Joseph. Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words. New York: Free Press, 2000. ISBN 0-684-86279-4.
- Howe, Irving (1970). "The New York Intellectuals". Decline of the New. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. pp. 211–265. ISBN 978-0-15-124510-9.
- Jumonville, Neil. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America, University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-06858-0
- Laskin, David. Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 0-226-46893-3
- Podhoretz, Norman (1967). "The Family Tree". Making It. New York: Random House. pp. 109–136. OCLC 292070.
- Wald, Alan M. (1987). The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4169-2.
Further reading
[edit]- Eisenstadt, Peter, ed. (2005). "New York intellectuals". The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press. pp. 1088–. ISBN 978-0-8156-0808-0.
External links
[edit]- Lives of the New York intellectuals by Robert Fulford in The Globe and Mail
- The Failure of the New York Intellectuals by Daniel Silliman in Comment
- Arguing the World, a PBS documentary