Bücher von Eugene Goodheart

Aimed at literary scholars, intellectual historians, cultural studies specialists, and sociologists, this book attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a defense of humanist criticism. It shows that in moving beyond their area of competence, the neo-Darwinists commit an ideology, not a science.

Provides a critical analysis of the ideological character of Lawrence's novels and essays, in particular the effect of his utopianism on his views of nature, myth, and religious experience, while responding to his aesthetic achievement. In the introduction to the book, the author reflects upon the vicissitudes of Lawrence's reputation.

What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world. In the introduction to the new Transaction edition of his memoir, Goodheart addresses the themes of social justice, Zionism, chosenness, messianism, and alienation from a secular Jewish perspective. The story takes the reader from Goodhearts coming of age in Brooklyn to his higher education at Columbia College in the early fifties and beyond to his varied career as university teacher and literary critic.

This collection of essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985 are a deliberate response to the current, increasingly specialized forms of criticism.