Comments on: Where Have You Gone, Harold Rosenberg?

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By: pushmedia1

pushmedia1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:23:07 +0000

I've only heard of the guy and his book because Greg Clark wrote a particularly nice review of it in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:54:22 +0000

Funny you should say that, considering what Krugman said about Galbraith. He gets a nice swipe in at Gould there to boot.

By: gabe

gabe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:19:20 +0000

Yes but Tony Judt is preferable in terms of his realistic promotion of social democracy vs. the Zizekian 'idea of communism' crowd, which seems to be gaining a certain momentum.

It would be interesting to hear you elaborate though on what you mean by 'matter' – have literary intellectuals ever mattered in terms of having even an indirect influence on either public opinion or policy circles? And that raises the question whether the Pinkers or the Cowens are having any greater effect. It would appear that then it was Galbraith, and now Krugman would be better examples of influential intellectuals, and they appear quite similar in their profile and role.

By: zaph

zaph — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:19:37 +0000

This line from n+1's blog was interesting, considering what you're saying about the new intellectuals:

"Marxism, by contrast, is a discipline of deep memory and long anticipation. It situates the effervescent eternity of our current way of life in the long sequence of the modes of production, from hunter-gathering, to early agriculture, through slave society, feudalism, the notorious "Oriental despotism," and our own capitalism as, over four centuries, it has swamped the globe."

Contrast that with you're quote above: "But I’m unimpressed with the concepts of natural and unnatural [economic development], as if history follows, or can be expected to follow, such a course."

With all the new data coming in, you really don't have time to often develop the grand sweeping narratives like Marx created. But those narratives come across as being impressive due to their vastness, and the umpteen million specific criticisms against them come across as minor because of their scope.