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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... living at the fringes of politics , and thus freed of the burdens of decision and re- sponsibility , the reformers found it much easier than the professionals to keep their boasted purity . Most of the reform leaders were men from ...
... living at the fringes of politics , and thus freed of the burdens of decision and re- sponsibility , the reformers found it much easier than the professionals to keep their boasted purity . Most of the reform leaders were men from ...
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... living , of conjoint com- municated experience . " 1 The problem of the democratic educator is to make of the school a specialized environment , a miniature community , an embryonic society , which will eliminate so far as possible the ...
... living , of conjoint com- municated experience . " 1 The problem of the democratic educator is to make of the school a specialized environment , a miniature community , an embryonic society , which will eliminate so far as possible the ...
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... living up to the idea that education should in no way be looked upon as a preparation for the child's future life - what Dewey always called a " remote future ” — but rather as living itself , a simulacrum of life , or a sort or ...
... living up to the idea that education should in no way be looked upon as a preparation for the child's future life - what Dewey always called a " remote future ” — but rather as living itself , a simulacrum of life , or a sort or ...
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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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