{"product_id":"beloved-community-casey-nelson-blake-9780807842966","title":"Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford","description":"The \"Young American\" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village \"Little Renaissance\" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In \u003ci\u003eBeloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlake draws on biography to emphasize the intersection of questions of self, culture, and society in their calls for a culture of \"personality\" and \"self-fulfillment.\" In contrast to the tendency of previous analyses to separate these critics' cultural and autobiographical writings from their politics, Blake argues that their cultural criticism grew out of a radical vision of self-realization through participation in a democratic culture and polity. He also examines the Young American writers' interpretations of such turn-of-the-century radicals as William Morris, Henry George, John Dewey, and Patrick Geddes and shows that this adversary tradition still offers important insights into contemporary issues in American politics and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e reestablishes the democratic content of the Young Americans' ideal of \"personality\" and argues against viewing a monolithic therapeutic culture as the sole successor to a Victorian \"culture of character.\" The politics of selfhood that was so critical to the Young Americans' project has remained a contested terrain throughout the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Casey Nelson Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807842966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807842966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.09w x 1.09d","brand":"Casey Nelson Blake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926305603839,"sku":"9780807842966","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9cf49753-2798-4fb6-b680-4c277f931a84.jpg?v=1681082336","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beloved-community-casey-nelson-blake-9780807842966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}