The last intellectuals
Subtitle: American culture in the age of academe
By: Russell Jacoby.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Intellectuals -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 238-274.
Includes index.