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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... social progress and reform . ” Hence the teacher must be seen as “ engaged , not simply in the training of individuals , but in the formation of the proper social life . " Every teacher should accordingly think of himself as “ a social ...
... social progress and reform . ” Hence the teacher must be seen as “ engaged , not simply in the training of individuals , but in the formation of the proper social life . " Every teacher should accordingly think of himself as “ a social ...
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... social responsibilities ; but these would be defined as responsi- bilities to his peers and to the future . The new education itself would have social responsibilities more demanding and more freighted with social significance than the ...
... social responsibilities ; but these would be defined as responsi- bilities to his peers and to the future . The new education itself would have social responsibilities more demanding and more freighted with social significance than the ...
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... social activity is not a thoroughly satis- factory procedure . " In social situations , " Dewey approvingly wrote , " the young have to refer their way of acting to what others are doing and make it fit in . " It was just this kind of ...
... social activity is not a thoroughly satis- factory procedure . " In social situations , " Dewey approvingly wrote , " the young have to refer their way of acting to what others are doing and make it fit in . " It was just this kind of ...
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