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ISBN-10 :  3030477608 

ISBN-13 :  9783030477608

Author :  Guy Stevenson 

This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas – ideas that doubted human perfectibility, spurned the majority for a spiritually elect few, and had their roots in earlier politically reactionary avant-gardes. Through case studies of icons in the counterculture – the controversial sexual revolutionary Henry Miller, Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and self-proclaimed ‘philosopher of hip’, Norman Mailer – Guy Stevenson explores a set of paradoxes at its centre: between romantic optimism and modernist pessimism; between brutal rhetoric and emancipatory desires; and between social egalitarianism and spiritual elitism. Such paradoxes, Stevenson argues, help explain the cultural and political worldsthese writers shaped – in their time and beyond.

Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Romanticism, Humanism and the Counterculture
2. Henry Miller and the Beats: An Anti-humanist Precedent
3. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Their Transcendentalist Gloom
4. William Burroughs’ Immodest Proposal
5. The Philosophy of Hip: Norman Mailer’s ‘Spiritual Existentialism’
6. Conclusion: Counterculture Then and Now

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