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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
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Edwards, Thomas S. "The Pursuit of the Ideal: Mass Culture and Mass Politics in the Works of Dwight MacDonald (1906-1983)," Bowling Green State University, August 1989.
This work examines the relationship between the cultural criticism and the political commentary of the New York intellectual Dwight MacDonald. MacDonald’s elitist cultural criticism and his radical politics often are considered to be in conflict with one another; hence most treatment of his career never connect the two. This investigation establishes that MacDonald’s critique of mass culture were informed by his egalitarian politics and linked closely to the work of Frankfurt School theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. MacDonald’s mass culture criticism and his radical politics were complementary aspects of his attempt to reveal the dehumanizing effects of mass culture in both the political and cultural realm.
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