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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0465036252
ISBN13: 9780465036257
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Aug 1 2000
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
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.

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