Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Volume 713Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 434 pages In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. Professor Hofstadter sets the standard for the dissection of many facets of U.S. history. Here he tells the tale of the intertwining factors of American culture and politics that lead to prevalent anti-intellectualism. Although published in 1963, this remains the definitive work on the distrust of elites and experts and is sadly relevant to the present day. Thanks to Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter we have at last a fresh, forceful, fluent look from "the nether end" at various aspects of anti-intellectualism in America, past and present, and although it is self-styled a fragmentary rather than a formal study, the work is far-ranging, artfully approached and filled with a spirited, sensibility, without pedantry or polemic. It presents both the historical and socio-psychological aspects of its theme, pinpointing the middle-and-low-brow responses via our go-getter economy, the common man's traditional resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind, and the cyclical ambivalence which seems always to have greeted the scholar or expert when venturing into a democratic culture. For although the Founding Fathers, were a worldly elite, starting with Jefferson, too-much-book-larnin' soon became a political black mark. |
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... intellectuals are without moments of anti - intellectualism ; few anti - intellectuals without single- minded intellectual passions . In so far as anti - intellectualism becomes articulate enough to be traced historically or widespread ...
... intellectuals are without moments of anti - intellectualism ; few anti - intellectuals without single- minded intellectual passions . In so far as anti - intellectualism becomes articulate enough to be traced historically or widespread ...
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... intellectual class which are surprisingly similar . Again , progressive education has had its own strong anti - intellectual element , and yet its harshest and most determined foes , who are right- wing vigilantes , manifest their own ...
... intellectual class which are surprisingly similar . Again , progressive education has had its own strong anti - intellectual element , and yet its harshest and most determined foes , who are right- wing vigilantes , manifest their own ...
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... intellectual as expert , who must be accepted even when he is feared , the intellectual as ideologist is an object of un- qualified suspicion , resentment , and distrust . The expert appears as a threat to dominate or destroy the ...
... intellectual as expert , who must be accepted even when he is feared , the intellectual as ideologist is an object of un- qualified suspicion , resentment , and distrust . The expert appears as a threat to dominate or destroy the ...
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