New York intellectuals
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The New York intellectuals were a mid-20th-century group of predominantly Jewish, left-leaning writers and critics centered in New York City who shaped American cultural and political discourse through influential essays, journals, and debates.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York intellectuals canonical | 3 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
informal group
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intellectual movement ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedIdeology |
anti-Stalinist left
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democratic socialism ⓘ liberal anti-communism ⓘ |
| associatedPublication |
Commentary
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Dissent NERFINISHED ⓘ Encounter NERFINISHED ⓘ Partisan Review NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Leader NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Review of Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
City College of New York
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Columbia University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic | predominantly Jewish ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalContext |
Cold War
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postwar American culture ⓘ |
| debated |
American liberalism
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Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalinism ⓘ modern art ⓘ modernism in literature ⓘ |
| field |
cultural criticism
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literary criticism ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| ideology | left-wing ⓘ |
| influenced |
American cultural discourse
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American political discourse ⓘ |
| knownFor |
highly polemical essays
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intense political debates ⓘ shaping postwar American liberal thought ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| medium |
essay
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journalism ⓘ magazines ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Alfred Kazin
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Clement Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ Dwight Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannah Arendt NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Irving Howe NERFINISHED ⓘ Irving Kristol NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Trilling NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathan Glazer NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Podhoretz NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Rahv NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Hook NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Sontag NERFINISHED ⓘ William Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialBackground |
New York working class
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immigrant Jewish communities ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.