Opposition As True Friendship: Edward Alexander and Irving Howe.(Review)

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew. By EDWARD ALEXANDER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

To ask those born after the 1940s what position a public intellectual should assume is to risk, at the very least, being labeled quaint; these days intellectuals have repudiated principled positions for alliance with trendy coteries. But for over fifty years, Irving Howe enjoyed a central and commanding place in American intellectual life. Unlike many of those these days who fancy themselves intellectuals, Howe's interests were neither fixed nor narrow. They ranged ...

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