Research Catalog

Title

Light in August / William Faulkner.

Author

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Publication

[Norfolk, Conn.] : [New Directions], [©1932]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

480 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Series Statement

Modern readers series (New Directions)

Subject

• Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) > Fiction
• Racially mixed people > Fiction
• Pregnant women > Fiction
• Drifters > Fiction
• Drifters
• Pregnant women
• Racially mixed people
• Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
• Mississippi > Fiction
• Mississippi

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1968.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.

Indexed In (note)

• Carruth, H. New Directions reader

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig and Barrows .

Contents

In search of a liberal essence -- Liberalism vs. democracy -- Public administration and liberal democracy -- Pluralism and liberal democracy -- Mass democracy and the populist alternative.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-819

LCCN

a 48006419

OCLC

214960048

Author

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Title

Light in August / William Faulkner.

Imprint

[Norfolk, Conn.] : [New Directions], [©1932]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern readers series (New Directions)

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 225

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-819 bound in publishers' green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig and Barrows . NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-819 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-819