The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright MillsJohn H. Summers C. Wright Mills was a radical public intellectual, a tough-talking, motorcycle-riding anarchist from Texas who taught sociology at Columbia University. Mills's three most influential books--The Power Elite, White Collar, and The Sociological Imagination--were originally published by OUP and are considered classics. The first collection of his writings to be published since 1963, The Politics of Truth contains 23 out-of-print and hard-to-find writings which show his growth from academic sociologist to an intellectual maestro in command of a mature style, a dissenter who sought to inspire the public to oppose the drift toward permanent war. Given the political deceptions of recent years, Mills's truth-telling is more relevant than ever. Seminal papers including "Letter to the New Left" appear alongside lesser known meditations such as "Are We Losing Our Sense of Belonging?" John Summers provides fresh insights in his introduction, which gives an overview of Mills's life and career. Summers has also written annotations that establish each piece's context and has drawn up a comprehensive bibliography of Mills's published and unpublished writings. |
Contents
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The Powerless People The Role of the Intellectual in Society | 13 |
The Intellectual and the Labor Leader | 25 |
Sociological Poetry | 33 |
Contribution to Our Country and Our Culture A Symposium | 37 |
On Intellectual Craftsmanship | 43 |
Thorstein Veblen | 63 |
IBM plus Reality plus HumanismSociology | 79 |
A Pagan Sermon to the Christian Clergy | 163 |
The Man in the Middle | 173 |
The Big City | 185 |
Culture and Politics The Fourth Epoch | 193 |
The Cultural Apparatus | 203 |
The Decline of the Left | 213 |
On Latin America the Left and the US | 223 |
Soviet Journal | 235 |
Are We Losing Our Sense of Belonging? | 87 |
The Conservative Mood | 95 |
Mass Society and Liberal Education | 107 |
On Knowledge and Power | 125 |
The Power Elite Comment on Criticism | 139 |
Science and Scientists | 155 |
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