Norman Mailer: Works and Days

David Riesman Reconsidered

Mailer's review essay on the sociologist David Riesman's Individualism Reconsidered, appearing in the autumn 1954 Dissent.

“David Riesman Reconsidered.” Dissent 1 (autumn 1954), 349–59.

A review essay of David Riesman‘s Individualism Reconsidered (1954). Riesman had been among the contributors to the Partisan Review “Our Country and Our Culture” symposium (52.1) two years earlier.

Rpt: Advertisements for Myself (59.13).

First published: 1954
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 54.3
Cite as: /works/1954-autumn-david-riesman-reconsidered
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