Tag: Stanley Aronowitz

February 4, 2013

Stanley Aronowitz on C. Wright Mills and Columbia University Press Author Events This Week

This week Stanley Aronowitz will be discussing his new book Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals on Friday, February 8, Aronowitz will talk about the book at The Murphy Institute . Other events this...

August 2, 2012

C. Wright Mills and the New York Intllectuals

“As his peers drifted rightward, Mills lurched to the Left, at a time when such a move was decidedly unfashionable.”—Stanley Aronowitz In Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals, Stanley Aronowitz describes the uneasy intellectual...

August 1, 2012

Stanley Aronowitz on C. Wright Mills as Public Intellectual

“Mills is an exhilarating exemplar of the role and reach of the public radical intellectual and, at the same time, a sobering reminder of how far the human sciences have declined since the end of the Vietnam war.”—Stanley Aronowitz In...

July 31, 2012

Interview with Stanley Aronowitz

“If [Mills] were alive today, in 2012, he would be very skeptical of, if not oppositional to, people like Obama and the Democratic Party.”—Stanley Aronowitz In a recent interview with The Brooklyn Rail Stanley Aronowitz discussed his new book on...

June 12, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Aronowitz on Mills, the iPhone, Economists Speak Out, and Rivers

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau The Economists’...

December 30, 2011

Happy New Year and What's Coming in 2012

We wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and thank readers of our blog and Columbia University Press titles for their interest in our books and our authors. In a seemingly ever-shifting publishing environment, we are grateful for the...