Since a mythology has been grown to such an extent around "the New York (Jewish) Intellectuals," Nathan Abrams examines their history in order to re-evaluate it anew, from a perspective that has not been shaped entirely by them. In doing so, he takes a new angle on the subject by extensively subjecting them to a theoretical analysis, utilizing different models of the intellectual. Abrams looks at the changing function of the New York Intellectuals, as public intellectuals, beginning in the 1930s through the forties and fifties, and paying specific attention to the period known as the Cultural Cold War. Using the work of, in particular, Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault, he concludes that, through their alliance with the anticommunist hegemony, many of them lost their original functions as "organic" and "universal" intellectuals and instead became "traditional" and "specific."
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