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Oggi la Cultura Alta non è più minacciata dal Masscult, quanto da quell'ibrido nato dai rapporti contro natura che la Cultura Alta ha intrattenuto con esso. Si tratta di una variegata cultura intermedia che minaccia di assorbire entrambi i genitori. Questa forma - che chiameremo Midcult - ha le stesse caratteristiche fondamentali del Masscult (la formula, le Reazioni Controllate, il rifiuto di qualsiasi standard qualitativo a favore della popo...

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A New York Review Books Original Political radical, trenchant essayist, and impresario of the New York intellectuals, Dwight Macdonald was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters. In his most famous and controversial essay, "Masscult and Midcult, " MacDonald turns his formidable critical attention to what he sees as a new, and potentially catastrophic, development in the history of Western civilization: the influence-...

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" -Han...

Thirty years since it was first published, Macdonald's masterful book on the Ford Foundation remains the only book-length account of this institution that has been published. Despite the calls for a book carrying on the story from 1956 on the part of Richard Magat and McGeorge Bundy, that book has yet to be written. In his stimulating introduction to this new edition, Francis Sutton suggests why this is so.