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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... political 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 ...
... political 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 ...
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... political sense in which I use the term. It is of course true that anti-intellectualist “These considerations serve as a forcible reminder that there is in America, as elsewhere, a kind of intellectual establishment that embraces a wide ...
... political sense in which I use the term. It is of course true that anti-intellectualist “These considerations serve as a forcible reminder that there is in America, as elsewhere, a kind of intellectual establishment that embraces a wide ...
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... political behavior, and with middle-brow and low-brow responses, only incidentally with articulate theories. The attitudes that interest me most are those which would, to the extent that they become effective in our affairs, gravely ...
... political behavior, and with middle-brow and low-brow responses, only incidentally with articulate theories. The attitudes that interest me most are those which would, to the extent that they become effective in our affairs, gravely ...
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... political life. Perhaps the high moment in the case against the expert and for the amateur occurred in 1957 when a ... politics or diplomacy. Questioned by Senator Fulbright about his qualifications for the post, Mr. Gluck had some ...
... political life. Perhaps the high moment in the case against the expert and for the amateur occurred in 1957 when a ... politics or diplomacy. Questioned by Senator Fulbright about his qualifications for the post, Mr. Gluck had some ...
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... politics to the grave loss of intellectual values: “Today, if we mention Mommsen, Treitschke, Ostwald, Brunetière, Barrès, Lemaitre, Péguy, Maurras, d'Annunzio, Kipling, we have to admit that the 'clerks' now exercise political passions ...
... politics to the grave loss of intellectual values: “Today, if we mention Mommsen, Treitschke, Ostwald, Brunetière, Barrès, Lemaitre, Péguy, Maurras, d'Annunzio, Kipling, we have to admit that the 'clerks' now exercise political passions ...
Table des matières
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24 | |
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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