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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... popular novelist of right-wing political persuasion, suggested that the word might some day find its way into dictionaries as follows:" Egghead: A person of spurious intellectual pretensions, often a professor or the protégé of a ...
... popular novelist of right-wing political persuasion, suggested that the word might some day find its way into dictionaries as follows:" Egghead: A person of spurious intellectual pretensions, often a professor or the protégé of a ...
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... popular American writing with this interest in mind will be struck by the manifest difference between the idea of intellect and the idea of intelligence. The first is frequently used as a kind of epithet, the second never. No one ...
... popular American writing with this interest in mind will be struck by the manifest difference between the idea of intellect and the idea of intelligence. The first is frequently used as a kind of epithet, the second never. No one ...
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... popular assaults upon hierarchy. We need not be surprised, then, if the intellectual's position has rarely been comfortable in a country which is, above all others, the home of the democrat and the antinomian. It is a part of the ...
... popular assaults upon hierarchy. We need not be surprised, then, if the intellectual's position has rarely been comfortable in a country which is, above all others, the home of the democrat and the antinomian. It is a part of the ...
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... popular suspicions of the uses to which power is put. The small-town lawyers and businessmen who are elected to Congress cannot hope to expropriate the. *A great deal of internal discussion is heard in the intellectual community as to ...
... popular suspicions of the uses to which power is put. The small-town lawyers and businessmen who are elected to Congress cannot hope to expropriate the. *A great deal of internal discussion is heard in the intellectual community as to ...
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... popular politicians confront experts has been explored with much insight by Edward Shils: The Torment of Secrecy (Glencoe, Illinois, 1956). * Testimony before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of ...
... popular politicians confront experts has been explored with much insight by Edward Shils: The Torment of Secrecy (Glencoe, Illinois, 1956). * Testimony before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of ...
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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