Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 4 janv. 2012 - 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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... America. Time, the weekly magazine of opinion, shook its head in an unconvincing imitātion of concern. Eisenhower's victory, it said, "discloses an alarming faet long suspected: there is a wide and unhealthy gap between the American ...
... America. Time, the weekly magazine of opinion, shook its head in an unconvincing imitātion of concern. Eisenhower's victory, it said, "discloses an alarming faet long suspected: there is a wide and unhealthy gap between the American ...
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... American selfevaluation; it has slipped unobtrusively into our usage without much definition and is commonly used to describe a variety of unwelcome phenomena. Those who have suddenly become aware of it often assume that anti ...
... American selfevaluation; it has slipped unobtrusively into our usage without much definition and is commonly used to describe a variety of unwelcome phenomena. Those who have suddenly become aware of it often assume that anti ...
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... American scientists was their awareness that America's disdain for pure science was a handicap not only to investigation but also to the progress of research and development in the Department of Defense. Examining Secretary of Defense ...
... American scientists was their awareness that America's disdain for pure science was a handicap not only to investigation but also to the progress of research and development in the Department of Defense. Examining Secretary of Defense ...
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... American art. . . . All are instruments and weapons of destruction. Exhibit I. Since I shall have much to say in these pages about antiintellectualism in the evangelical tradition, it seems important to cite at least one survival of ...
... American art. . . . All are instruments and weapons of destruction. Exhibit I. Since I shall have much to say in these pages about antiintellectualism in the evangelical tradition, it seems important to cite at least one survival of ...
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... American culture. I can only say that I do not suffer from the delusion that the complexities of American history can be satisfactorily reduced to a running battle between the eggheads and the fatheads. Moreover, to the extent that our ...
... American culture. I can only say that I do not suffer from the delusion that the complexities of American history can be satisfactorily reduced to a running battle between the eggheads and the fatheads. Moreover, to the extent that our ...
Table des matières
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The Evangelical Spirit | 55 |
Evangelicalism and the Revivalists | 81 |
The Revolt against Modernity | 117 |
The Decline of the Gentleman | 145 |
The Fate of the Reformer | 172 |
The Rise of the Expert | 197 |
SelfHelp and Spiritual Technology | 253 |
Variations on a Theme | 272 |
The School and the Teacher | 299 |
The Road to Life Adjustment | 323 |
The Child and the World | 359 |
CONCLUSION | 372 |
Alienation and Conformity | 393 |
Business and Intellect | 233 |
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