Daniel Geary
Trinity College, Dublin
17 Papers
29 Citations
Daniel Geary is an academic researcher from Trinity College, Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: White (horse) & Politics. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications. Previous affiliations of Daniel Geary include University of California, Berkeley.
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Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
Daniel Geary
- 14 Apr 2009
TL;DR: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills as discussed by the authors, a 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
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“Becoming International Again”: C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left, 1956–1962
TL;DR: For American left student activists of the early 1960s, C. Wright Mills's I960 "Letter to the New Left" provided inspiration as mentioned in this paper, the prominent radical sociologist and social critic proclaimed to the emerging white student movement that "new generations of intellectu als" could be "real live agencies of social change." Thus, to readers who already revered Mills for his trenchant social analysis, "Letter-to-New Left" legitimated the notion that university students, although relatively privileged, could be pivotal agents of social transformation.
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Carey McWilliams and Antifascism, 1934–1943
TL;DR: McWilliams's use of the term fascism lacked theoretical rigor, but it allowed him to piece together in a coherent agenda the astonishing range of political activities he actively pursued as a lawyer, journalist, activist, and government official as discussed by the authors.
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Children of the lonely crowd : david riesman, the young radicals, and the splitting of liberalism in the 1960s *
TL;DR: This article examined reactions to the New Left by Riesman and his associates, and found that the common understanding of the key ideological divisions of the 1960s as existing between liberalism and radicalism or between conservatism to better appreciate the significance of splits among liberals themselves.
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