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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, 2nd edition

By Russell Jacoby

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0465036252, 9781429485661, 9780465036257, 0465038123, 9780465038121, 0374521751, 9780374521752
ASIN
B0027L6126
LCC
E169.12 .J28 1987
Open Library ID
OL2408994M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22559443 bytes)
Pages
304\313
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"Russell Jacoby's brilliant analysis of our diminished intellectual life is, in itself, a hopeful sign: may he flourish." -Gore Vidal This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom larger than the politics of culture. In an incisive and passionate polemic, Russell Jacoby examines how gentrification, suburbanization, and academic careerism have sapped the vitality of American intellectual life.

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