Intellectual Life in America

Intellectual Life in America
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 479
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226661018
ISBN-13 : 0226661016
Rating : 4/5 (016 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Intellectual Life in America by : Lewis Perry

Download or read book Intellectual Life in America written by Lewis Perry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-02-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Intellectual Life in America Related Books

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Steven Conn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, li
Intellectual Life in America
Language: en
Pages: 479
Authors: Lewis Perry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

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 American
Labor's Mind
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Tobias Higbie
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

GET EBOOK

Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or al
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Richard Hofstadter
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-04 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

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. I
Consuming Pleasures
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Daniel Horowitz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

GET EBOOK

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, play