- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- Chapter:
- (p.139) What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- Source:
- A Voice Still Heard
- Author(s):
Irving Howe
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1971 essay “What's the Trouble?,” in which he describes the malaise afflicting America's youth as a “crisis of civilization.” Howe highlights social problems that he thinks are symptoms of this crisis, which he believes cannot be dissolved through acts of public policy. For Howe, a social crisis raises difficulties whereas a crisis of civilization raises dilemmas. He also provides a historical background on socialism and classical liberalism before concluding with a discussion of the repercussions of a crisis of civilization and the consequences of the failure of socialism.
Keywords: youth, Irving Howe, What's the Trouble?, America, crisis of civilization, social problems, social crisis, socialism, classical liberalism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
