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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... feeling of the whole of the people.” Exhibit B. Almost two years later President Eisenhower appeared to give official sanction to a similarly disdainful view of intellectuals. Speaking at a Republican meeting in Los Angeles in 1954, he ...
... feeling of the whole of the people.” Exhibit B. Almost two years later President Eisenhower appeared to give official sanction to a similarly disdainful view of intellectuals. Speaking at a Republican meeting in Los Angeles in 1954, he ...
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... feeling toward the United States. . . . FULBRIGHT: Do you know our Ambassador to India? GLuck: I know John Sherman Cooper, the previous Ambassador. Fulbright: Do you know who the Prime Minister of India is? GLUCK : Yes, but I can't ...
... feeling toward the United States. . . . FULBRIGHT: Do you know our Ambassador to India? GLuck: I know John Sherman Cooper, the previous Ambassador. Fulbright: Do you know who the Prime Minister of India is? GLUCK : Yes, but I can't ...
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... feeling about ideas which is not required by his job. As a professional, he has acquired a stock of mental skills that are for sale. The skills are highly developed, but we do not think of him as being an intellectual if certain ...
... feeling about ideas which is not required by his job. As a professional, he has acquired a stock of mental skills that are for sale. The skills are highly developed, but we do not think of him as being an intellectual if certain ...
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... feeling about ideas that I call his piety. The intellectual is engagé—he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively ...
... feeling about ideas that I call his piety. The intellectual is engagé—he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively ...
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... feels that he ought to be the special custodian of values like reason and justice which are related to his own search ... feeling of commitment is the belief that in some measure the world should be made responsive to his capacity for ...
... feels that he ought to be the special custodian of values like reason and justice which are related to his own search ... feeling of commitment is the belief that in some measure the world should be made responsive to his capacity for ...
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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