Age of contradiction
Subtitle: American thought and culture in the 1960s
By: Howard Brick.
Series: Twayne's American thought and culture series
Publisher: Twayne Publishers; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
Description: Brick undertakes three tasks: to plot out the principal contradictions or polarities that structured debate and contention in American thought and the arts: to note distinguished figures - such as sociologist Erving Goffman, black modernist poet Melvin Tolson, and feminist literary critic Kate Millett - whose innovations managed to move beyond the restraints imposed by those forms of dualism; and to recognize dilemmas of the 1960s that remained unresolved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-228) and index.