Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Volume 713Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 434 pages In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. Professor Hofstadter sets the standard for the dissection of many facets of U.S. history. Here he tells the tale of the intertwining factors of American culture and politics that lead to prevalent anti-intellectualism. Although published in 1963, this remains the definitive work on the distrust of elites and experts and is sadly relevant to the present day. Thanks to Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter we have at last a fresh, forceful, fluent look from "the nether end" at various aspects of anti-intellectualism in America, past and present, and although it is self-styled a fragmentary rather than a formal study, the work is far-ranging, artfully approached and filled with a spirited, sensibility, without pedantry or polemic. It presents both the historical and socio-psychological aspects of its theme, pinpointing the middle-and-low-brow responses via our go-getter economy, the common man's traditional resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind, and the cyclical ambivalence which seems always to have greeted the scholar or expert when venturing into a democratic culture. For although the Founding Fathers, were a worldly elite, starting with Jefferson, too-much-book-larnin' soon became a political black mark. |
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... Ratio itaque primaria , et quasi demonstra- tiva , ut circumstantiæ mutantes speciem confiteri debeant , non alia est , neque esse potest , quam Dei voluntas , sive Christi institutio . His autem præsuppositis , adjecit Concilium ...
... Ratio itaque primaria , et quasi demonstra- tiva , ut circumstantiæ mutantes speciem confiteri debeant , non alia est , neque esse potest , quam Dei voluntas , sive Christi institutio . His autem præsuppositis , adjecit Concilium ...
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... ratio sub qua contritio exercite , et in actu secundo extenditur ad offensam commissam , et circa illam sic versatur , debeat in exercitio proponi , et cognosci idem motivum secundum quod est ratio sub qua propositi formalis , et ex ...
... ratio sub qua contritio exercite , et in actu secundo extenditur ad offensam commissam , et circa illam sic versatur , debeat in exercitio proponi , et cognosci idem motivum secundum quod est ratio sub qua propositi formalis , et ex ...
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... ratio sub qua in habitibus , et virtutibus se habeat tanquam ratio differentialis ultimo con- trahens , ac determinans essentiam ; atque ideo sicut repugnat limites essentiæ tran- silire , ita , et quod actus a virtute eliciatur , nisi ...
... ratio sub qua in habitibus , et virtutibus se habeat tanquam ratio differentialis ultimo con- trahens , ac determinans essentiam ; atque ideo sicut repugnat limites essentiæ tran- silire , ita , et quod actus a virtute eliciatur , nisi ...
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