| Intellectual Life in America: A History Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Perry, Lewis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226661016 ISBN-13: 9780226661018 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1989 Annotation: This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how impotent they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Perry explores the openness of intellectual circles to women, blacks, artisans, southerners, and other groups. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 88027770 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.07" W x 9.05" (1.40 lbs) 484 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectuals--a sense of historical orientation. |
