HOFSTADTER ANTI INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE PDF

Richard Hofstadter’s famous Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his tenth book, earned him the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction (). This “personal book,”. For the ages For Hofstadter, pictured here in , anti-intellectualism was an By the time Anti-Intellectualism in American Life was published (), he was a . Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Non- Fiction. It is a book which throws light on many features of the American.

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Throughout his career, he worked at many universities, most recently as the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Does the “engaged intellectual” risk sacrificing their independence? This book has become a cornerstone work on the subject, and is a must read for anyone interested in the subject matter. One particularly interesting fact that Hofstadter hits: This is where Hofstadter ends, his book published in As an active scholar, anri had weathered the s witch hunt against intellectuals and artists of many stripes, and this proved a pivotal event in his thinking, as reflected in several of his books.

If the s represented an apex of the anti-intellectual cycle, as Hofstadter speculates, I harbor doubts that it has lessened much or any since then. But overall fun and fascinating.

Roy I actually think more recent books may be less relevant, because they are tied up in the issues of our time.

I picked up this book by Richard Hofstadter because I was sick of reading about him in other books without ever having read him myself.

As a man of his time, Richard Hofstadter was a Communist, and a member of the Young Communist League at university, and later progressed to Communist Party membership. In the end it must be the farmer and the industrialist Each segment – from politics, religion, cultural and education — is traced with the shifting or cyclical position of intellectual life. It’s This book is not nearly as snotty as the title makes it sound.

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Towards the end of his analysis of evangelism in the U. According to Hofstader’s argument, FDR’s “brain trust” of advisors constituted the closest engagement of intellectuals in the practical affairs of state since the days of the first presidents. Tolerance and understanding are not required when dealing with those who have no basis for their reason and who appeal to certainty by authority or feelings for their truths.

Political Intellectuaalism with a Specialization in International Relations. As I have said many times before I love books that take my mind to walks along paths and directions that I just would not have been led before and this book takes you on many many walks Sadly, hofztadter same problems that existed at the time of this work still have not been addressed today.

Recent political development in this country make it seem that gossip, hearsay, “alternative facts,” wishful thinking, invective, and shaming the intellectual class have become coin of the realm at the highest levels of government. Maybe we think, in our collective futures, we can buy our way out of academic inferiority. It’s a waste of time for them, and a place they are taught to feel inferior.

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inn They are incapable of acquiring knowledge on a broad or a liberal scale. Somehow the notion that somebody might just be better than somebody else at something, without it being a result of identity categories and power imbalances, the idea that somebody wrote a better paper because they are smarter, harder working, or just temperamentally more suited to the discipline is now anathema.

He’s certainly done his homework and summons vast amounts of evidence, though he does not allow his footnotes to overwhelm his text. Local General or Spot News Reporting.

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At several points in this examination, Hofstadter deals with the love affair Americans have for applied science and technology versus amsrican theoretical.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. But he does plot some of the baleful consequences of an exclusive commitment to egalitarianism as manifested in public schools, intelelctualism example. He may also be aware that in former days–in the times, say, of Andrew Carnegie–the great business leader, despite some hostility, was a cultural-hero.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

In Hofstadter’s reading of American political history, intellectuals have been categorized as outsiders, servants, or scapegoats The problems in were just as bad as the problems we have today. The conclusion paints an overall picture of the periodic waxing and waning of anti-intellectual sentiment throughout the decades. From then on it was excellence at bureaucracy that oife.

The book is essentially a study of the rampant anti-intellectualism that is strife in America today and as it was in when Richard wrote this book. I believe it fair to say that we’ve not seen a conspicuous “brain trust” in any administration of the past half-century, nor have we seen a man of intellect in the White House excepting Bill Clinton, his occasional conduct notwithstanding.

Apparently we’ve been here before. Parents saw the world demanding more complex skills.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

Today, I see people make the same complaints about high schools and colleges, and I just find it silly and think people are just manufacturing a problem from the anecdotal. Looking for More Great Reads? Arguably, the social status of intellectuals has plunged steadily downward since Lists with This Book.

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