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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... Professors and Sore-heads': The Genteel Reformers” in the ColumT o E. A. H. 1888–1962. bia University Forum. Chapter 14 appeared in somewhat different form as “The Child and the World” in Daedalus. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF ...
... Professors and Sore-heads': The Genteel Reformers” in the ColumT o E. A. H. 1888–1962. bia University Forum. Chapter 14 appeared in somewhat different form as “The Child and the World” in Daedalus. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF ...
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... professors and ex-Rhodes scholars. If there was a suspicion that intellect had become a hopeless obstacle to success in politics or administration, it must surely have been put to rest by the new President's obvious interest in ideas ...
... professors and ex-Rhodes scholars. If there was a suspicion that intellect had become a hopeless obstacle to success in politics or administration, it must surely have been put to rest by the new President's obvious interest in ideas ...
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... professors nor Miss McCarthy with the late senator of the same name.“The criticism of other intellectuals is, after all, one of the most important functions of the intellectual, and he customarily performs it with vivacity. We may hope ...
... professors nor Miss McCarthy with the late senator of the same name.“The criticism of other intellectuals is, after all, one of the most important functions of the intellectual, and he customarily performs it with vivacity. We may hope ...
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... professor or the protégé of a professor. Fundamentally superficial. Over-emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem. Supercilious and surfeited with conceit and contempt for the experience of more sound and able men. Essentially ...
... professor or the protégé of a professor. Fundamentally superficial. Over-emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem. Supercilious and surfeited with conceit and contempt for the experience of more sound and able men. Essentially ...
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... professors, twisted-thinking intellectuals . . . in the State Department"; those who are “burdened with Phi Beta Kappa keys and academic honors” but not “equally loaded with honesty and common sense"; “the American respectables, the ...
... professors, twisted-thinking intellectuals . . . in the State Department"; those who are “burdened with Phi Beta Kappa keys and academic honors” but not “equally loaded with honesty and common sense"; “the American respectables, 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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