急!请求大家的帮忙.关于C.WrightMills(charleswrightmill）写的"thepromise".我需要一篇关于C.WrightMills写的“thepromise“的总结.英文的.如果大家有知道希望帮帮我谢谢!

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急!请求大家的帮忙.关于C. Wright Mills(charles wright mill）写的"the promise".
我需要一篇关于C. Wright Mills写的“the promise“ 的总结.英文的.如果大家有知道希望帮帮我 谢谢!

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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annotations that establish each piece's context and has drawn up a comprehensive bibliography of Mills's published and unpublished writings.
"Choosing from the plethora of Mills's publications is no easy task.Summers has handled this chore wisely,rejecting a handy potpourri in favor of concentrating on what Mills had to say about a particular problem:the role at intellectuals should play in contemporary society."--The New Republic
"Many of these essays...retain their capacity to inform,instruct,and occasionally even incite.There isnt a false note in the bunch."--The American Conservative
"John Summers has done yeoman work to give these essays and lectures of Mills the resurrection they richly deserve.The Politics of Truth shows beautifully why Mills was,and remains,inspiring:because he confronted big questions and showed that intellectual work was both an adventure and a moral imperative.A splendid book."--Todd Gitlin,Columbia University
"Half provocateur and half sociologist,C.Wright Mills cuts a wide swathe through the 1950s and early 60s.But it is now more than ever that we need this coruscating foe of cant and complacency.Mills addresses a world as old as today's war and tomorrow's industrialized passivity.Read him!"--Russell Jacoby,author of The Last Intellectuals
"The collection sheds much light on the man who wrote these classics.It stands as a valuable reference and supplement to the life work of a brilliant and daring American intellectual who died too young.Whether you agree or disagree with Mills,the work and the man can provide valuable lessons on what is truly important to us and challenge us to determine for ourselves where each of us should stand in our present epoch."--The Epoch Times
Under-studied but profoundly influential intellectual of the 20th century.No grand theories,or metaphysical insights,C.Wright Mills just tells it like it is.This new volume of letters,speeches,articles,and interviews is a terrific addition to Wright's distinguished publishing record.
Summers includes a short introductory essay on Mills which is mostly biographical.Beyond that,I found his polemics against Daniel Bell's "end of ideology" and tribute to Thorstein Veblen most insightful.Throughout the essays,Mills explores some of his familiar sociological insights including 'crackpot realism','power elite',and 'cheerful robots'.What is not appreciated as much I believe is Mills's foresight in the "New Left" having seen how both the totalitarianism of Stalinist Communism distorted Marxist orthodoxy and how liberal capitalism had peaked with the high-modernity of the 1950s.
I think what most people will enjoy most about Mills and this collection of unpublished documents is how colloquially Mills writes.None of the postmodern pretension and highbrow academic jargon you would read from a sociology text today,and Mills's insights are still as valid today as when he wrote them which is saying a lot.Definitely a must read.