Casey Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casey Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casey |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rock as Experience
Readers dismayed by the appearance of a review essay on hipsters, hippies, and rock music in the pages of Modern Intellectual History should take a deep breath (you may inhale) and consider the following passage from John Dewey's 1934 Art as Experience : Any idea that ignores the necessary role of intelligence in production of works of art is based upon identification of thinking with use of one special kind of material, verbal signs and words. T…
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Journal Article American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xxviii, 320 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-42740-6.) Get access Casey N. Blake Casey N. Blake Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1449–1451, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674740 Published: …
The Degradation of American History
Journal Article The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxxiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $41.00, ISBN 0-226-31616-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-31617-3.) Get access Casey N. Blake Casey N. Blake Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/1…
Public Art and Civic Culture
Research Article| January 01 1999 Public Art and Civic Culture Casey Blake Casey Blake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 196–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-73-196 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Casey Blake; Public Art and Civic Culture. Radical History Review 1 January 1999; 1999 (73): 196–203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636…
The Usable Past, the Comfortable Past, and the Civic Past: Memory in Contemporary America
Born in the U.S.A: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition
Journal Article Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition. By Jim Cullen. (New York: HarperCollins, 1997. xviii, 254 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-06-018780-8.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1596–1597, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568240 Published: 01 Mar…
Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940
Journal Article Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940. By James Livingston. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xxiv, 392 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2157-8.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10…
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald.
This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of mid-century American civilization. Dwight MacDonald was the founder of The Partisan Review, and editor of The New Yorker, Fortune and Esquire. His friends ranged from Hannah Arendt to Abbie Hoffman.
History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch
Journal Article History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch Get access Casey Blake, Casey Blake associate professor of history Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Phelps Christopher Phelps graduate student in history University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue …
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
The Softening of the American Character? Appraising a "New" Myth of Declension
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century.
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
The critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village Little Renaissance of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American and politics. In Beloved Community , Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and so…
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, & Lewis Mumford
Journal Article Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, & Lewis Mumford. By Casey Nelson Blake. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xviii + 365 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access George Cotkin George Cotkin California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
William James, Public Philosopher
Journal Article William James, Public Philosopher. By George Cotkin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 218 pp. $32.50.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1386–1387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078348 Published: 01 March 1991
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
Memorial LEWIS MUMFORD (1895-1990) CASEY BLAKE Even in death, Lewis Mumford managed to escape the grasp of technological society. To die in one’s sleep, in one’s home, at the age of 94 requires more than good luck and good health; it also requires a community of family and friends close at hand committed to the care of the old and frail. Mumford did not die as many of us probably will—surrounded by strangers in an anonymous hospital, hooked up to…
No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture
Journal Article No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture. By Andrew Ross. (New York: Routledge, 1989. x + 269 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $13.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 731, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079320 Published: 01 September 1990
Children of the Left: A Story about Family and Politics in America
Children of the Left: A Story about Family and Politics in America. Prod. by Eric Stange. Eric Stange and the Newton Television Foundation, 1989. 57 mins. (New Day Films, 853 Broadway, Suite 1210, New York, NY 10003) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1122, https://doi.org/10…
Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction
Journal Article Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction. By Norman F. Cantor. (New York: Lang, 1988. xx + 452 pp. $39.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 631–632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908070 Published: 01 September 1989
Public Intellectuals without a Public
States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought
Journal Article States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought. By Philip Abbott. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xii + 212 pp. $20.00.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889680 Published: 01 June 1988
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985
Journal Article The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940–1985. By Diana Crane. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ix + 194 pp. $24.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887967 Published: 01 September 1…
Where are the Young Left Historians
Research Article| May 01 1984 Where are the Young Left Historians? Casey Blake Casey Blake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 114–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Casey Blake; Where are the Young Left Historians?. Radical History Review 1 May 1984; 1984 (28-30): 114–123. doi: https://doi.…
The Usable Past, the Comfortable Past, and the Civic Past: Memory in Contemporary America
William James, Public Philosopher
Journal Article William James, Public Philosopher. By George Cotkin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 218 pp. $32.50.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1386–1387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078348 Published: 01 March 1991
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought
Journal Article States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought. By Philip Abbott. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xii + 212 pp. $20.00.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889680 Published: 01 June 1988
History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch
Journal Article History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch Get access Casey Blake, Casey Blake associate professor of history Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Phelps Christopher Phelps graduate student in history University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue …
Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction
Journal Article Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction. By Norman F. Cantor. (New York: Lang, 1988. xx + 452 pp. $39.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 631–632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908070 Published: 01 September 1989
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985
Journal Article The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940–1985. By Diana Crane. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ix + 194 pp. $24.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887967 Published: 01 September 1…
Where are the Young Left Historians
Research Article| May 01 1984 Where are the Young Left Historians? Casey Blake Casey Blake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 114–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Casey Blake; Where are the Young Left Historians?. Radical History Review 1 May 1984; 1984 (28-30): 114–123. doi: https://doi.…
Where are the Young Left Historians
Research Article| May 01 1984 Where are the Young Left Historians? Casey Blake Casey Blake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 114–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Casey Blake; Where are the Young Left Historians?. Radical History Review 1 May 1984; 1984 (28-30): 114–123. doi: https://doi.…
States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought
Journal Article States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought. By Philip Abbott. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xii + 212 pp. $20.00.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889680 Published: 01 June 1988
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985
Journal Article The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940–1985. By Diana Crane. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ix + 194 pp. $24.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887967 Published: 01 September 1…
Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction
Journal Article Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction. By Norman F. Cantor. (New York: Lang, 1988. xx + 452 pp. $39.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 631–632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908070 Published: 01 September 1989
Public Intellectuals without a Public
No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture
Journal Article No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture. By Andrew Ross. (New York: Routledge, 1989. x + 269 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $13.95.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 731, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079320 Published: 01 September 1990
Children of the Left: A Story about Family and Politics in America
Children of the Left: A Story about Family and Politics in America. Prod. by Eric Stange. Eric Stange and the Newton Television Foundation, 1989. 57 mins. (New Day Films, 853 Broadway, Suite 1210, New York, NY 10003) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1122, https://doi.org/10…
The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century.
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
The critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village Little Renaissance of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American and politics. In Beloved Community , Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and so…
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, & Lewis Mumford
Journal Article Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, & Lewis Mumford. By Casey Nelson Blake. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xviii + 365 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access George Cotkin George Cotkin California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
William James, Public Philosopher
Journal Article William James, Public Philosopher. By George Cotkin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 218 pp. $32.50.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1386–1387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078348 Published: 01 March 1991
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
Memorial LEWIS MUMFORD (1895-1990) CASEY BLAKE Even in death, Lewis Mumford managed to escape the grasp of technological society. To die in one’s sleep, in one’s home, at the age of 94 requires more than good luck and good health; it also requires a community of family and friends close at hand committed to the care of the old and frail. Mumford did not die as many of us probably will—surrounded by strangers in an anonymous hospital, hooked up to…
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
The Softening of the American Character? Appraising a "New" Myth of Declension
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch
Journal Article History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch Get access Casey Blake, Casey Blake associate professor of history Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Phelps Christopher Phelps graduate student in history University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue …
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald.
This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of mid-century American civilization. Dwight MacDonald was the founder of The Partisan Review, and editor of The New Yorker, Fortune and Esquire. His friends ranged from Hannah Arendt to Abbie Hoffman.
Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940
Journal Article Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940. By James Livingston. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xxiv, 392 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2157-8.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10…
Born in the U.S.A: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition
Journal Article Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition. By Jim Cullen. (New York: HarperCollins, 1997. xviii, 254 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-06-018780-8.) Get access Casey Blake Casey Blake Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1596–1597, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568240 Published: 01 Mar…
The Degradation of American History
Journal Article The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxxiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $41.00, ISBN 0-226-31616-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-31617-3.) Get access Casey N. Blake Casey N. Blake Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/1…
Public Art and Civic Culture
Research Article| January 01 1999 Public Art and Civic Culture Casey Blake Casey Blake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 196–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-73-196 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Casey Blake; Public Art and Civic Culture. Radical History Review 1 January 1999; 1999 (73): 196–203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636…
The Usable Past, the Comfortable Past, and the Civic Past: Memory in Contemporary America
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Journal Article American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xxviii, 320 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-42740-6.) Get access Casey N. Blake Casey N. Blake Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1449–1451, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674740 Published: …
Rock as Experience
Readers dismayed by the appearance of a review essay on hipsters, hippies, and rock music in the pages of Modern Intellectual History should take a deep breath (you may inhale) and consider the following passage from John Dewey's 1934 Art as Experience : Any idea that ignores the necessary role of intelligence in production of works of art is based upon identification of thinking with use of one special kind of material, verbal signs and words. T…
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