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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... understanding of him, and would be made the scapegoat for everything from the income tax to the attack on Pearl Harbor. “Anti-intellectualism,” Schlesinger remarked, “has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. . . . The ...
... understanding of him, and would be made the scapegoat for everything from the income tax to the attack on Pearl Harbor. “Anti-intellectualism,” Schlesinger remarked, “has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. . . . The ...
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... understands that a joke, say, about jews or Negroes has different overtones when it is told within the group and when it is told by outsiders. movements often invoke the ideas of such anti-rationalist thinkers (Emerson. IN T R o DU c T I ...
... understands that a joke, say, about jews or Negroes has different overtones when it is told within the group and when it is told by outsiders. movements often invoke the ideas of such anti-rationalist thinkers (Emerson. IN T R o DU c T I ...
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... understand o: he knows.” Richard and § Harkness: “The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Wilson,” Reader's Digest, Vol. LXXI (August, 1957), p. 197. *The New York Times, August 1, 1957. * U.S. Congress, 84th Congress, 2nd session, Senate ...
... understand o: he knows.” Richard and § Harkness: “The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Wilson,” Reader's Digest, Vol. LXXI (August, 1957), p. 197. *The New York Times, August 1, 1957. * U.S. Congress, 84th Congress, 2nd session, Senate ...
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... understand “the Groton vocabulary of the Hiss-Acheson group.” “The spirit of this rhetorical jacquerie was caught by an editorial writer for the Freeman:" The truly appalling phenomenon is the irrationality of the college-educated.
... understand “the Groton vocabulary of the Hiss-Acheson group.” “The spirit of this rhetorical jacquerie was caught by an editorial writer for the Freeman:" The truly appalling phenomenon is the irrationality of the college-educated.
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... understand children. Theirs is a child-centered program. School days were one continuous joy of games and music and colors and friendliness. Life rolled merrily along through the first grade, the second grade, the third grade . . . then ...
... understand children. Theirs is a child-centered program. School days were one continuous joy of games and music and colors and friendliness. Life rolled merrily along through the first grade, the second grade, the third grade . . . then ...
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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