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New York Intellectual State of Mind
Historian George Cotkin has a piece worth reading about today's "democratized" cultural criticism in The Chronicle of Higher Education. And it's worth reading for more than this glowing gloss (?) of Reason:
Today The Saturday Review and Partisan Review are dead, Commentary a narrowly conservative shell of its old self.
But many new and thriving venues for criticism and debate exist today, and they are not limited solely to the discussion of literary works. Reason, a libertarian periodical edited by a Ph.D. in English, has a circulation of 60,000 and interrogates cultural issues with a fervor for debate equal to that of the New York intellectuals.
Whole thing here. And at the risk of logrolling like a Upper East Side lumberjack (??), let me point you to my review of Cotkin's excellent Existential America, which appeared in our pages a few months back.
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|7.1.04 @ 1:07AM|#
Oh, to be considered equal to New York intellectuals. You must be thrilled.
|7.1.04 @ 1:22AM|#
What exactly is a New York intellectual? How different are they from the other breeds? Oh, how I wish I were one...
|7.1.04 @ 1:36AM|#
I think it used to mean a jewish New Yorker who smokes and read books at the same time. I don't know if that still applies.
|7.1.04 @ 1:44AM|#
Good essay, although I would disagree that there is anything wrong with the way Dale Peck reviews books.
|7.1.04 @ 1:45AM|#
You don't think he had the outer borough residents in mind, did he?
|7.1.04 @ 2:08AM|#
A mere PhD in English?
Rabble ;-)
|7.1.04 @ 11:45AM|#
New York Intellectual used to be code for Communist of various flavors, but nowadays `twill serve for...*shudder*...neo-con!
See: http://tinyurl.com/2f6rt
Kevin
|7.2.04 @ 12:11PM|#
I think the Beastie Boys went through an "Upper East Side lumberjack" phase around "Check Your Head."