The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe
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At a moment when public discourse has retreated behind the walls of the university, Russell Jacoby issues a provocative lament for a vanishing breed — the independent intellectual who wrote for the general reader, not for tenure committees. The Last Intellectuals chronicles the decline of the great tradition of public thought in America, arguing that the absorption of intellectual life into the academy has produced specialists who speak only to each other, leaving the broader culture intellectually impoverished. Jacoby's prose is sharp, polemical, and deeply persuasive, drawing on a rich cast of thinkers from the New York intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century to the cloistered theorists of the modern university. He argues that suburbanisation, professionalism, and the corporatisation of academic life have conspired to silence the kind of bold, accessible intellectual voice that once shaped democratic debate. A work that is as urgently relevant today as when it first appeared, it leaves the reader asking a disquieting question: if the last intellectuals are gone, who will take their place?
Author: Russell Jacoby
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At a moment when public discourse has retreated behind the walls of the university, Russell Jacoby issues a provocative lament for a vanishing breed — the independent intellectual who wrote for the general reader, not for tenure committees. The Last Intellectuals chronicles the decline of the great tradition of public thought in America, arguing that the absorption of intellectual life into the academy has produced specialists who speak only to each other, leaving the broader culture intellectually impoverished. Jacoby's prose is sharp, polemical, and deeply persuasive, drawing on a rich cast of thinkers from the New York intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century to the cloistered theorists of the modern university. He argues that suburbanisation, professionalism, and the corporatisation of academic life have conspired to silence the kind of bold, accessible intellectual voice that once shaped democratic debate. A work that is as urgently relevant today as when it first appeared, it leaves the reader asking a disquieting question: if the last intellectuals are gone, who will take their place?