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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... past which must be surmounted . The Protestant denominations were based on a similar view of the Christian past.2 It was commonly believed that the historical development of Christianity was not an accretion of valuable institutional ...
... past which must be surmounted . The Protestant denominations were based on a similar view of the Christian past.2 It was commonly believed that the historical development of Christianity was not an accretion of valuable institutional ...
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... past . " The present , ” he wrote in an uncommonly eloquent passage in Democracy and Education , “ is not just something which comes after the past . . . . It is what life is in leaving the past behind it . " For this reason , the study ...
... past . " The present , ” he wrote in an uncommonly eloquent passage in Democracy and Education , “ is not just something which comes after the past . . . . It is what life is in leaving the past behind it . " For this reason , the study ...
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... past to the point at which the child could make a recon- structive use of past culture , American educators seized upon his theory as having downgraded past culture and its merely ornamental and solacing " products " and as having ...
... past to the point at which the child could make a recon- structive use of past culture , American educators seized upon his theory as having downgraded past culture and its merely ornamental and solacing " products " and as having ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
The Evangelical Spirit | 55 |
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