UNTIMELY
PAPERS
BY RANDOLPH BOURNE
UNTIMELY
PAPERS
FOREWORD BY THE EDITOR
JAMES OPPENHEIM
NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH MCMXIX
The collection gathers polemical essays, a war diary, and unfinished fragments that attack wartime conformity, critique the intellectuals' embrace of militarism, analyze the erosion of individual autonomy under state power, and explore cultural and moral consequences of modern conflict. Through sharp cultural criticism and personal reflection the writer interrogates inherited social tyrannies, the collapse of strategic coherence, and the responsibilities of thinkers and artists. The tone blends political argument, philosophical provocation, and fragmentary theorizing, ending on an unfinished but forceful indictment of the State and a call for renewed cultural and moral imagination.
BY RANDOLPH BOURNE
UNTIMELY
PAPERS
FOREWORD BY THE EDITOR
JAMES OPPENHEIM
NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH MCMXIX