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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... culture. Despite the fringes of documentation on many of its pages, this work is by no means a formal history but largely a personal book, whose factual details are organized and dominated by my views. The theme itself has been ...
... culture. Despite the fringes of documentation on many of its pages, this work is by no means a formal history but largely a personal book, whose factual details are organized and dominated by my views. The theme itself has been ...
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... CULTURE 9 Business and Intellect 233 10 Self-Help and Spiritual Technology 253 11 Variations on a Theme 272 PART W. : EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY 12 The School and the Teacher 299 13 The Road to Life Adjustment 323 14 The Child and the ...
... CULTURE 9 Business and Intellect 233 10 Self-Help and Spiritual Technology 253 11 Variations on a Theme 272 PART W. : EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY 12 The School and the Teacher 299 13 The Road to Life Adjustment 323 14 The Child and the ...
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... culture of the 1950's with some detachment. If there was then a tendency to see in McCarthyism, and even in the Eisenhower administration, some apocalypse for intellectuals in public life, it is no longer possible, now that Washington ...
... culture of the 1950's with some detachment. If there was then a tendency to see in McCarthyism, and even in the Eisenhower administration, some apocalypse for intellectuals in public life, it is no longer possible, now that Washington ...
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... culture, science worship, the working power of government, Freudianism, naturalism, humanism, behaviorism, positivism, materialism, and idealism. [This is the work of] so-called intellectuals. Thousands of these “intellectuals” have ...
... culture, science worship, the working power of government, Freudianism, naturalism, humanism, behaviorism, positivism, materialism, and idealism. [This is the work of] so-called intellectuals. Thousands of these “intellectuals” have ...
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... culture. I can only say that I do not suffer from the delusion that the complexities of American history can be ... culture. Moreover, a book on anti-intellectualism in America can hardly be taken as though it were meant to be a balanced ...
... culture. I can only say that I do not suffer from the delusion that the complexities of American history can be ... culture. Moreover, a book on anti-intellectualism in America can hardly be taken as though it were meant to be a balanced ...
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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