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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... teachers are recruited " from the top of the lower half of the popu- lation . " Upper and upper - middle class persons almost universally re- ject teaching as a vocation . Teachers frequently resort , during the school year or their ...
... teachers are recruited " from the top of the lower half of the popu- lation . " Upper and upper - middle class persons almost universally re- ject teaching as a vocation . Teachers frequently resort , during the school year or their ...
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... teachers are ill - paid and they are quick to agree that teachers should be better paid . The more ambitious and able among them also conclude that school- teaching is not for them.1 In this way , the mediocrity of the teaching ...
... teachers are ill - paid and they are quick to agree that teachers should be better paid . The more ambitious and able among them also conclude that school- teaching is not for them.1 In this way , the mediocrity of the teaching ...
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... teaching : women constituted ninety - three per cent of its pri- mary teachers and sixty per cent of its secondary teachers . Only one country in Western Europe ( Italy , with fifty - two per cent ) employed women for more than half of ...
... teaching : women constituted ninety - three per cent of its pri- mary teachers and sixty per cent of its secondary teachers . Only one country in Western Europe ( Italy , with fifty - two per cent ) employed women for more than half of ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
The Evangelical Spirit | 55 |
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