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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... Teacher 299 13 The Road to Life Adjustment 323 14 The Child and the World 359 PART VI: CONCLUSION 15 The Intellectual: Alienation and Conformity 393 Acknowledgments 433 INDEx follows page 434 P A R T I Introduction CHAPTER I Anti ...
... Teacher 299 13 The Road to Life Adjustment 323 14 The Child and the World 359 PART VI: CONCLUSION 15 The Intellectual: Alienation and Conformity 393 Acknowledgments 433 INDEx follows page 434 P A R T I Introduction CHAPTER I Anti ...
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... teachers was to examine them for disloyalty, the nation now began to worry about their low salaries. Scientists, who had been saying for years that the growing obsession with security was demoralizing to research, suddenly found ...
... teachers was to examine them for disloyalty, the nation now began to worry about their low salaries. Scientists, who had been saying for years that the growing obsession with security was demoralizing to research, suddenly found ...
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... teacher's complaint about the lax standards in contemporary education. The entire piece is worth reading as a vivid ... teachers understand children. Theirs is a child-centered program. School days were one continuous joy of games and ...
... teacher's complaint about the lax standards in contemporary education. The entire piece is worth reading as a vivid ... teachers understand children. Theirs is a child-centered program. School days were one continuous joy of games and ...
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... teacher. There was no welcome on the mat of that school. No one greeted the stranger or made note of his coming. A somber hallway presented itself, punctuated at regular intervals by closed doors. Unfamiliar sounds came from within. I ...
... teacher. There was no welcome on the mat of that school. No one greeted the stranger or made note of his coming. A somber hallway presented itself, punctuated at regular intervals by closed doors. Unfamiliar sounds came from within. I ...
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... teacher, the suspect scientist, or the allegedly treacherous foreign-policy adviser. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in ...
... teacher, the suspect scientist, or the allegedly treacherous foreign-policy adviser. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in ...
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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