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T oward a Critical Sociology
By
NORMAN BIRNBAUM,
Amherst College.
Fusing analysis and theoretical
reflection, the essays in this volume express a generation's struggle to wrest from
the past and send onward a theory of society imbued with historicity and rigor–
ous thought. "[Birnbaum] bridges European and American scholarship with
knowledgeable ease. . . . Rarely has so much of importance been said so
well." - ALVIN W. GOULDNER, Washington University
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The Jewish Writer in America
ASSIMILATION AND T HE CRISIS OF IDENTITY
By
ALLEN GUTTMANN,
Amherst College.
Professor Guttmann sets into full
social context for the first time the "postwar flowering" of Jewish writers: the
fiction of Bellow, Roth. Mailer, and Malamud; the essays of Kazin and Good–
man; the poetry of Shapiro and Ginsberg.
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Imagination and Power
A STUDY OF POETRY ON PUBLIC THEMES
By
THOMAS R. EDWARDS,
Rutgers University.
"Edwards' book is learned,
ingenious - and what is rarer - wise in its understanding both of the poets and
relevant political contexts.
It
is a live and engag-ing introrluction to a difficult
subject.... Altogether, an admirable performance." - REUBEN A. BROWER, Har–
vard University
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Blindness and Insigh t
ESSAYS IN THE RHETORIC OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
By
PAUL DE MAN,
Yale University.
These nine interpretive essays discuss re–
current patterns in contemporary European criticism, with emphasis on such
writers as Ludwig Binswanger, Georg Lukacs, Georges Poulet, and Jacques
Derrida. The author also considers questions of the self, of structure and design,
and of literary language.
$6.95
Harlem Renaissance
By
NATHAN IRVIN HUGGINS,
Columbia Un;versitv.
"A work of first-rate
scholarship." - JOHN A. WILLIAMS. "The most intelligent, most sophisticated
study of Negro writers in America that I have read. " - KENNETH S. LYNN,
The Johns Hopkins University. "A thoughtful and sensitive book." - OSCAR
HANDLIN, Harvard University. 16
pages of halftones.
$8.95
Freud and the Americans
THE BEGINNINGS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN
THE UNI TED STATES, 1876-1917
By
NATHAN G. HALE, JR.,
Universitv of California. Riverside.
" I t brings a
great deal of hitherto unknown or little known material about the history of
PsychoanalysIs in America and about its background." - HENRI F. ELLEN–
BERGER, M.D., University of Montreal. "[A] brilliant and broadly conceived
book." - ILZA VEITH, San Francisco Medical Center
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