Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 464 pages Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor |
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... democracy . In setting this aspiration , Dewey stood firmly within the American tradition , for the great educational reformers who had established the common - school system had also been concerned with its potential value to democracy ...
... democracy . In setting this aspiration , Dewey stood firmly within the American tradition , for the great educational reformers who had established the common - school system had also been concerned with its potential value to democracy ...
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... democracy , and at the same time shows a central difficulty in his educational philosophy : he was obliged to assume that there is a kind of pre- established harmony between the needs and interests of the child and " the society we ...
... democracy , and at the same time shows a central difficulty in his educational philosophy : he was obliged to assume that there is a kind of pre- established harmony between the needs and interests of the child and " the society we ...
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... Democracy and Education , p . 101. While it is quite true that the criterion of democracy can be applied to other social institutions as well as to the apparatus of government , there is much to be lost by encouraging men to think of ...
... Democracy and Education , p . 101. While it is quite true that the criterion of democracy can be applied to other social institutions as well as to the apparatus of government , there is much to be lost by encouraging men to think of ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART | 53 |
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