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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... Moral standards of yesterday to many individuals are no standard for today unless supported by the so-called “intellectuals.” I sincerely believe that partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all, if we only ...
... Moral standards of yesterday to many individuals are no standard for today unless supported by the so-called “intellectuals.” I sincerely believe that partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all, if we only ...
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... moral, aesthetic and spiritual dimensions, and the enjoyment of physical health.” The educationists argued that an especially praiseworthy feature of American education had been” the attempt to avoid a highly rigid system of education ...
... moral, aesthetic and spiritual dimensions, and the enjoyment of physical health.” The educationists argued that an especially praiseworthy feature of American education had been” the attempt to avoid a highly rigid system of education ...
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... moral significance. It is this aspect of the intellectual's 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 ...
... moral significance. It is this aspect of the intellectual's 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 ...
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Richard Hofstadter. lectively, intellectuals have often tried to serve as the moral antennae of the race, anticipating and if possible clarifying fundamental moral issues before these have forced themselves upon the public consciousness ...
Richard Hofstadter. lectively, intellectuals have often tried to serve as the moral antennae of the race, anticipating and if possible clarifying fundamental moral issues before these have forced themselves upon the public consciousness ...
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... moral protest. In the broadest signification of the term, there have always been intellectuals, but until the emergence of industrial society and of a kind of market place for ideas, there was little sense of the separateness of the ...
... moral protest. In the broadest signification of the term, there have always been intellectuals, but until the emergence of industrial society and of a kind of market place for ideas, there was little sense of the separateness of the ...
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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