The Last Intellectuals
American Culture in the Age of Academe
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Word Count
72,250 words, Guess
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289 pages
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- ISBN-100374521751
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- OCLC Control Number926142363
- Better World Books9780374521752
- Open LibraryOL7424232M
Classifications
- LCCE169.12 .J28 1989
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.
First Sentence
TO WALK INTO a familiar room and spontaneously identify a new object-a lamp, a picture, a clock-is a common experience.
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