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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... intellectual . He is a mental worker , a technician . He may happen to be an intellectual as well , but if he is , it is because he brings to his profession a distinctive feeling about ideas which is not required by his job . As a ...
... intellectual . He is a mental worker , a technician . He may happen to be an intellectual as well , but if he is , it is because he brings to his profession a distinctive feeling about ideas which is not required by his job . As a ...
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... intellectual as expert , who must be accepted even when he is feared , the intellectual as ideologist is an object of un- qualified suspicion , resentment , and distrust . The expert appears as a threat to dominate or destroy the ...
... intellectual as expert , who must be accepted even when he is feared , the intellectual as ideologist is an object of un- qualified suspicion , resentment , and distrust . The expert appears as a threat to dominate or destroy the ...
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... intellectual merit is felt to lie not in imagination or precision , but in the greatest possible degree of negativism . The responsibility of the intellectual is not seen , in the first instance , as a responsibility to be enlightening ...
... intellectual merit is felt to lie not in imagination or precision , but in the greatest possible degree of negativism . The responsibility of the intellectual is not seen , in the first instance , as a responsibility to be enlightening ...
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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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