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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Page vii
... idea of antiintellectualism as a device for looking at various aspects, hardly the most appealing, of American society and culture. Despite the fringes of documentation on many of its pages, this work is by no means a formal history but ...
... idea of antiintellectualism as a device for looking at various aspects, hardly the most appealing, of American society and culture. Despite the fringes of documentation on many of its pages, this work is by no means a formal history but ...
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... idea that this might be an important and even a dangerous national failing was persuasive to most thinking people ... ideas and respect for intellectuals, his ceremonial gestures to make that respect manifest in affairs of state, his ...
... idea that this might be an important and even a dangerous national failing was persuasive to most thinking people ... ideas and respect for intellectuals, his ceremonial gestures to make that respect manifest in affairs of state, his ...
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... idea, it is not a single proposition but a complex of related propositions. As an attitude, it is not usually found in a ... ideas which I call anti-intellectual is a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are ...
... idea, it is not a single proposition but a complex of related propositions. As an attitude, it is not usually found in a ... ideas which I call anti-intellectual is a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are ...
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... ideas of thinkers like Nietzsche, Sorel, or Bergson, Emerson, Whitman, or William James, or of writers like William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, or Ernest Hemingway may be called anti-rationalist; but these men were not characteristically ...
... ideas of thinkers like Nietzsche, Sorel, or Bergson, Emerson, Whitman, or William James, or of writers like William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, or Ernest Hemingway may be called anti-rationalist; but these men were not characteristically ...
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... ideas of democracy and liberalism. Subject to the old-fashioned philosophical morality of Nietzsche which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace. A selfconscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question. *The term was ...
... ideas of democracy and liberalism. Subject to the old-fashioned philosophical morality of Nietzsche which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace. A selfconscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question. *The term was ...
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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