The conception of "isolation" is put forward by American social and cultural critic Alfred Kazin.

“疏离感”这一概念是美国社会文化批评家阿尔弗雷德·卡津所提出的。

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The left, Kazin argues, has failed to build up the same network of institutions that have fueled the rightwing insurgency.

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Despite the slightly tedious nostalgia for the world of the New York intellectuals and the patient outlets of nineteen-fifties high journalism, I doubt that Edmund Wilson or Alfred Kazin would rightfully find much to complain about.

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