An Interview with David Riesman
- In an interview, David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd (1950), discusses: how he came to write The Lonely Crowd; the influence Erich FROMM had on his intellectual and personal development; the relationship between the mass culture of the 1940s and 1990s; the link between >other-direction< and the technological sophistication of the modern world; the US's peculiar tendency toward anti-elitist, anti-intellectual, and anti-authoritarian rhetoric; the trade-off between egalitarianism and liberty; the difference between cultural integrity and cultural diversity; the Clinton administration's ideas of mass conformity; the relationship between cultural conformity and consumer culture; and the significance of the contemporary debate about multiculturalism. M. Maguire
MetadatenAuthor: | David Riesman, David Barboza |
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Parent Title (English): | Partisan Review Vol. 61 (No. 4, Fall 1994), pp. 574-591. |
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Document Type: | Interviews |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1994 |
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Release Date: | 2012/12/13 |
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Format: | PDF-scan to download |
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IdNo: | Riesman_D_and_Barboza_D_1994 |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Interviews |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Interviews |
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