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The Last Intellectuals

American Culture In The Age Of Academe

Russell Jacoby author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Basic Books

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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.

ISBN: 9780465036257

Dimensions: 202mm x 128mm x 19mm

Weight: 324g

320 pages