| The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe Contributor(s): Jacoby, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465036252 ISBN-13: 9780465036257 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom larger than the politics of culture. In an incisive and passionate polemic, Russell Jacoby examines how gentrification, suburbanization, and academic careerism have sapped the vitality of American intellectual life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Education | History |
| Dewey: 973.9 |
| Lexile Measure: 1300 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.31" W x 8.03" (0.74 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom larger than the politics of culture. In an incisive and passionate polemic, Russell Jacoby examines how gentrification, suburbanization, and academic careerism have sapped the vitality of American intellectual life. |