C. Wright Mills

by Daniel Geary

C. Wright Millsb C. Wright Mills 100th Birthday b August 28th is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) in Waco, Texas. C. Wright Mills, who, like David Risman, Paul Sweezy, and Daniel Bell, who have stood together since the Second World War and survived into the 21st century, played a role in the American intelligentsia. Until his death at the age of sixty-six in 1962, he wrote a book on white collar, power elite, and sociological imagination. "Listen to Yankees" and "Letters to the New Left" served as guides to the Third World Revolution movement, the New Left theorists and activists. Now, things are different, In Korea, until the 1980s, it was an idol for student activists and intellectuals. In 1966, the first issue of "Creation and Criticism" was published by C. Wright Mills alongside Jean-Paul Sartres writing. In 1959, a lecture at the London School of Political Science and a BBC radio broadcast of the British leftists enthusiastic repercussions, "Culture and Politics", was translated by Baek Nak-chung, an editor at the age of 28. The "Sociological Imagination", which was first published in 1978, was translated by Young Hae Chan Young (26 years old), who was in the process of evacuating from the Sanghak Academy. Lee, a former historian who was the chairman of the National History Compilation Committee, cited "Hankyu Yankees" as a book of my life, which I read at the time of my university years (24 years old). In addition, C.right Mills, a model of practical intellectuals, led many young people to the forefront of the student movement during the military dictatorship and awakened a skeptic to the pulpit sociologist.

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Published August 28, 2016