Radical Ambition

C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25836-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of 1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary reveals that Mills shared key assumptions about American society even with those liberal intellectuals who were his primary opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly within the history of American sociology and traces his political trajectory from committed supporter of the Old Left labor movement to influential herald of an international New Left. More than just a biography, Radical Ambition illuminates the career of a brilliant thinker whose life and works illustrate both the promise and the dilemmas of left-wing social thought in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geary, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Current Affairs

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Maverick on a Motorcycle? The Thought and Times of C. Wright Mills

1. Student Ambitions: The Education of a Social Scientist

2. What Is Happening in the World Today: Weberian Sociology and Radical Political Analysis

3. The Union of the Power and the Intellect: The Labor Movement and Bureau-Driven Social Research

4. The New Little Men: 'White Collar'

5. The Politics of Truth: 'The Power Elite' and 'The Sociological Imagination'

6. Worldly Ambitions: The Emergence of a Global New Left

Epilogue: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills
Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Lecturer in United States History at Trinity College, Dublin.