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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... social decadence. - 4 - To avoid some hazards to understanding, it is perhaps necessary to say that a work given single-mindedly to the exploration of such a theme as this must inevitably have the effect of highlighting its importance ...
... social decadence. - 4 - To avoid some hazards to understanding, it is perhaps necessary to say that a work given single-mindedly to the exploration of such a theme as this must inevitably have the effect of highlighting its importance ...
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... social force, one finds Maurice Barrès writing in 1902: “I'd rather be intelligent than an intelusage makes it possible to extract the nub of the distinction,. lectual.” Victor Brombert: The Intellectual Hero: Studies in the French Novel ...
... social force, one finds Maurice Barrès writing in 1902: “I'd rather be intelligent than an intelusage makes it possible to extract the nub of the distinction,. lectual.” Victor Brombert: The Intellectual Hero: Studies in the French Novel ...
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... social sciences, on the other hand, may be rejected as gratuitous and foolish, if not ominous. One Congressman objected in these words to including the social sciences in the National Science Foundation: " Outside of myself, I think ...
... social sciences, on the other hand, may be rejected as gratuitous and foolish, if not ominous. One Congressman objected in these words to including the social sciences in the National Science Foundation: " Outside of myself, I think ...
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... social force, even the term intellectual itself, is identified with the idea of political and moral protest. In the broadest signification of the term, there have always been intellectuals, but until the emergence of industrial society ...
... social force, even the term intellectual itself, is identified with the idea of political and moral protest. In the broadest signification of the term, there have always been intellectuals, but until the emergence of industrial society ...
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... social movements in our history in which intellect has been dissevered from its co-ordinate place among the human virtues and assigned the position of a special kind of vice. In the first instance, anti-intellectualism must be sought ...
... social movements in our history in which intellect has been dissevered from its co-ordinate place among the human virtues and assigned the position of a special kind of vice. In the first instance, anti-intellectualism must be sought ...
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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