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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... thing should be particularly clear at the beginning; what I have done is merely to use the idea of antiintellectualism as a device for looking at various aspects, hardly the most appealing, of American society and culture. Despite the ...
... thing should be particularly clear at the beginning; what I have done is merely to use the idea of antiintellectualism as a device for looking at various aspects, hardly the most appealing, of American society and culture. Despite the ...
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... things, not the least of them being the extreme remoteness of the 'egghead from the thought and feeling of the whole of the people.” Exhibit B. Almost two years later President Eisenhower appeared to give official sanction to a ...
... things, not the least of them being the extreme remoteness of the 'egghead from the thought and feeling of the whole of the people.” Exhibit B. Almost two years later President Eisenhower appeared to give official sanction to a ...
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... things, that if there was to be pure research it should be subsidized by some agency other than the Department of Defense. “I am not much interested,” Secretary Wilson had testified, “as a military project in why potatoes turn brown ...
... things, that if there was to be pure research it should be subsidized by some agency other than the Department of Defense. “I am not much interested,” Secretary Wilson had testified, “as a military project in why potatoes turn brown ...
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... things. We do not like to do the same things. And we won't. When adults finally realize that fact, everyone will be happier . . . and schools will be nicer places in which to live. . . . If and when we are able to convince a few folks ...
... things. We do not like to do the same things. And we won't. When adults finally realize that fact, everyone will be happier . . . and schools will be nicer places in which to live. . . . If and when we are able to convince a few folks ...
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... thing, and the closest possible to divinity, is thus the act of knowing. It is only a somewhat more secular and activist version of the same commitment which we hear in the first sentence of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding ...
... thing, and the closest possible to divinity, is thus the act of knowing. It is only a somewhat more secular and activist version of the same commitment which we hear in the first sentence of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding ...
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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