Title: Writing the radical center
Subtitle: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics
Description: "Placing the philosopher John Dewey and the poet William Carlos Williams together - two important figures of twentieth-century American culture - this book examines the ambitions and failings of progressive liberal culture during the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows that, while their work ostensibly shares little in common, Williams and Dewey share the ambition to realize the radical potential of a democratic cultural politics.

Including close readings of texts like Williams's Spring and All, In the American Grain, and Paterson, and Dewey's Individualism Old and New and Art as Experience, Beck offers an important contribution to current debates over the relationship between politics and cultural production."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Political and social views, Politics and government, Political culture, Politics and literature, Radicalism, History and criticism, Culture, Political aspects of Culture, American Political poetry, Politics and culture, Williams, william carlos, 1883-1963, Dewey, john, 1859-1952, Political poetry, history and criticism, United states, politics and government, 20th century, Political science, Contributions in political science, Political aspects
Places: United States
People: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), John Dewey (1859-1952)
Time periods: 20th century