The last intellectuals

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.

subjects: Faculty,  Intellectual life,  Intellectuals,  Universities and colleges,  Enseignement supérieur,  Intellectuels,  Vie intellectuelle,  Corps enseignant,  Universités,  Colleges and universities,  Intellectuelen,  Cultuurgeschiedenis,  New York Times reviewed,  United states, intellectual life

Places: United States

Times: 20th century