The Root Is Man (New Autonomy Series)

MacDonald, Dwight

ISBN 10: 1570270171 / ISBN 13: 9781570270178

Published by Autonomedia, 1995

About this Item

Very light toning to wraps. A sharp copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Root Is Man (New Autonomy Series)
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570270171
• ISBN 13: 9781570270178
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 1.27W x 11.43H x 17.78D centimeters 1.27 centimeters width by 11.43 centimeters height by 17.78 centimeters depth
• Weight: 159 grams

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Synopsis

Nonfiction. "Macdonald has turned his back on every kind of doctrine that implicitly would treat man as an object, even from a benevolent point of view. What he is concerned with is to create a humanism that can hold its own in the face of enormous bureaucracies and the atom bomb. In so doing he has had to renounce many things which he had heretofore energetically championed. This is further evidence of what a really serious person he is" -Hannah Arendt.

About the Author

Dwight Macdonald, a journalist, was a member of the "New York intellectuals," whose literary and political exploits in the 1930s and 1940s have been magnified by legend. Born in 1906, Macdonald was a staff writer on The New Yorker when he wrote this book.