Background
Jumonville, Neil Talbot was born on October 7, 1952 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Urie William and Annette Elizabeth (Ansley) Jumonville.
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The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers who founded, edited, and wrote for some of the most influential magazines in the country, including Partisan Review, Politics, Commentary, and Dissent. In their rejection of ideological, visionary, and romantic outlooks, reviewers and essayists such as Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Lionel Trilling, Harold Rosenberg, and Daniel Bell adopted a pragmatic criticism that had a profound influence on the American intellectual community. By placing pragmatism at the center of intellectual activity, the New York Critics crossed from large belief systems to more tentative answers in the hope of redefining the proper function of the intellectual in the new postwar world. Because members of the New York group always valued being intellectuals more than being political leftists, they adopted a cultural elitism that opposed mass culture. Ready to combat any form of absolutist thought, they found themselves pitted against a series of antagonists, from the 1930s to the present, whom they considered insufficiently rational and analytical to be good intellectuals: the Communists and their sympathizers, the Beat writers, and the New Left. Jumonville tells the story of some of the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront all intellectuals. In this sense the book is as much about what it means to be an intellectual as it is about a specific group of thinkers.
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Jumonville, Neil Talbot was born on October 7, 1952 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Urie William and Annette Elizabeth (Ansley) Jumonville.
Bachelor in Economic Thought, Reed College, 1977. Master of Arts in History, Columbia University, 1979. Master of Arts in History, Harvard University, 1983.
Doctor of Philosophy in History American Civilization, Harvard University, 1987.
Editorial intern, The Nation magazine, New York City, 1980-1981; teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982-1986; resident tutor history and literature Dunster House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985-1988; instructor history and literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986-1987; lecturer history and literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987-1990; assistant professor department history, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1990-1993; associate professor department history, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1993-1998; professor of history, Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1998. Member steering committee History News Svc., since 1996.
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Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Civil Liberties Union, American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Oregon History Society, Signet Society, Harvard Club of Tallahassee (board directors), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Karen Marie Smutek, June 6, 1998.