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| image_caption = Cover of the Summer 2016 issue| editor_title = Co-editors Mitchell Cohen Irving Howe > Michael Kazin Michael Walzer}}| publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Foundation for the Study Independent Social Ideas| country = United States| frequency = Quarterly| founded = 1954| website = {{official URL}}| ISSN = 0012-3846| eISSN = 1946-0910| OCLC = 664602786}}Dissent is an American Left intellectual magazine edited by Natasha Lewis and Timothy Shenk and founded in 1954. The magazine is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas. Former co-editors include Irving Howe, Mitchell Cohen, Michael Walzer, and David Marcus.

History

The magazine was established in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, which included Lewis A. Coser, Rose Laub Coser, Irving Howe, Norman Mailer, Henry Pachter, and Meyer Schapiro. Its co-founder and publisher for its first 15 years was University Place Book Shop owner Walter Goldwater.BOOK, Donald C., Dickinson, Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers, Greenwood Publishing Group,books.google.com/books?id=x-6PBX7crnQC, 78, 1998, 9780313266751, 11 June 2020, From its inception, Dissent{{’}}s politics deviated from the standard ideological positions of the left and right. Like Politics, the New Left Review and the French socialist magazine Socialisme ou Barbarie, Dissent sought to formulate a third position between the liberalism of the West and the communism of the East.MAGAZINE,dissentmagazine.org/files/wordtoreaders1954.pdf, A Word to Our Readers, Dissent, Winter 1954, June 9, 2009, October 28, 2010,dissentmagazine.org/files/wordtoreaders1954.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20101028010648dissentmagazine.org/files/wordtoreaders1954.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20101028010648dissentmagazine.org/files/wordtoreaders1954.pdf, live, Troubled by the rampant bureaucratization of both capitalist and communist society, Dissent was home to writers like C. Wright Mills and Paul Goodman who identified themselves as radical democrats as well as to editors who like Irving Howe and Michael Harrington more closely identified with democratic socialism. Over its seven decades in publication, it has also become an influential venue for social and cultural criticism, publishing political philosophers including Michael Walzer, Cornel West, and Iris Marion Young, as well as novelists and poets such as Günter Grass and CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz.Maurice Isserman, If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left.In the 1960s and 1970s, Dissent{{’}}s skepticism toward Third World revolutions and the culture of the New Left occasionally isolated it from student movements, but its commitment to both pluralist and egalitarian politics—in particular, when it came to social and civil rights issues—separated it from both the mainstream liberalism and the growing neoconservative movement. Although Dissent still identifies with the democratic socialism of its founders, including Lewis A. Coser and Rose Laub Coser,WEB,www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rose-laub-coser, Coser, Rose Laub, Jewish Virtual Library, April 24, 2018, April 24, 2018,www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rose-laub-coser," title="web.archive.org/web/20180424135919www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rose-laub-coser,">web.archive.org/web/20180424135919www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rose-laub-coser, live, its editors and contributors represent a broad spectrum of left positions: from the Marxist humanism of Marshall Berman and Leszek KoÅ‚akowski, to the social democratic revisionism of Richard Rorty and Michael Walzer, and to the radical feminism of Ellen Willis and Seyla Benhabib.Maurice Isserman, “Steady Work: Sixty Years of Dissent” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626112225www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/steady-work-sixty-years-of-dissent |date=June 26, 2014 }}, Dissent, January 23, 2014. In the 2010s, several of its younger editors identified themselves with the heterodox Marxism and visions of radical democracy espoused by Occupy Wall Street.Michelle Goldberg, “A Generation of Intellectuals Shaped by 2008 Crash Rescues Marx From History’s Dustbin” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029021140www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/148162/young-intellectuals-find-marx |date=October 29, 2013 }}, Tablet, October 14, 2013.David Marcus, “The Horizontalists” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163641www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-horizontalists |date=July 14, 2014 }}, Dissent, Fall 2012.Jennifer Schuessler, “A Lion of the Left Wing Celebrates Six Decades” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026164351www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/arts/dissent-magazine-connects-with-younger-readers.html?ref=arts |date=October 26, 2017 }}, The New York Times, October 27, 2013.Together with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Dissent announced its Archive project. It will be digitizing several short-lived literary magazines, including Marxist Perspectives and democracy, and providing access to them online.“’Marxist Perspectives’ Revived” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174309www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/marxist-perspectives-revived |date=July 14, 2014 }}, Dissent blog, 18 April 2012, accessed 15 June 2014 It also recently launched a labor podcast and introduced a new front of the book section dedicated to publishing cultural criticism.“Belabored Podcast to Launch Next Friday Featuring Karen Lewis” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140708www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podcast-to-launch-next-friday-featuring-karen-lewis |date=July 14, 2014 }}, Dissent, April 5, 2013.WEB,www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/front-matters, Dissent website., July 4, 2014, July 14, 2014,www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/front-matters," title="web.archive.org/web/20140714231239www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/front-matters,">web.archive.org/web/20140714231239www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/front-matters, live,

See also

• Know Your Enemy, a political podcast about the American conservative movement from a socialist perspective

References

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Further reading

• George Packer, “A Modest Utopia: Sixty Years of Dissent”, New Yorker, October 21, 2013.
• Felicia R. Lee, “A Leftist Stalwart, Still Fighting the Fight”, The New York Times, February 21, 2004.
• JOURNAL, Reiner, J. Toby, Toward an Overlapping Dissensus: The Search for Inclusivity in the Political Thought of Dissent magazine, Political Research Quarterly, 2013, 66, 4, 756–767, 10.1177/1065912913478197, 23612055, 154583340,
• Jennifer Schuessler, “A Lion of the Left Wing Celebrates Six Decades”, The New York Times, October 27, 2013.

External links

• {{Official website}}
• Dissent at University of Pennsylvania Press

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