Intellect and public life : essays on the social history of academic intellectuals in the United States

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Intellect and public life : essays on the social history of academic intellectuals in the United States

Thomas Bender

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1997

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Periodic "crises" in our academic culture remind us that the organization of our intellectual life is a product of history-neither fixed by the logic of social development nor inherent in the nature of knowledge itself. At a time of much unease in academia and among the general public about the relation of intellect to public life, Thomas Bender explores both the nineteenth-century origins and the twentieth-century configurations of academic intellect in the United States. Intellect and Public Life pays special attention to the changing relationship of academic to urban culture. Examining the historical tensions faced by intellectuals who aspired to be at once academics and citizens, Bender traces the growing commitment of intellectuals to professional expertise and autonomy. He finds, as well, a historical pattern of academic withdrawal from the public discussion of matters of general concern. Yet the volume concludes on a hopeful note. With the demise of the classical republican notion of the public, Bender contends, there has emerged a more pluralistic notion of the public that-combined with the revival of interest in pragmatic theories of truth-may offer the possibility of a richer collaboration of democracy and intellect.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Nineteenth-Century Origins of Academic Culture Chapter 1. The Cultures of Intellectual Life: The City and the Professions Chapter 2. Science and the Culture of American Communities Chapter 3. The Erosion of Public Culture: Cities, Discourses, and Professional Disciplines Part II: Twentieth-Century Patterns Chapter 4. E.R.A. Seligman and the Vocation of Social Science Chapter 5. The Emergence of the New York Intellectuals: Modernism, Cosmopolitanism, and Nationalism Chapter 6. The Historian and Public Life: Charles A. Beard and the City Chapter 7. Lionel Trilling and American Culture Part III: Conclusions and Reconsiderations Chapter 8. Academic Knowledge and Political Democracy in the Age of the University Epilogue Notes Index

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