Intellectuals in politics and academia : culture in the age of hype /: culture in the age of hype. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Russell Jacoby.
• Authors: Jacoby, Russell
• Contents: 1. The Mission of IntellectualsAfter The Last IntellectualsIrresponsible Intellectuals2. Academic ConceitsThe Myth of MulticulturalismPost-Colonialism and the Marginality IndustryPublishing On DiversityCampus Reports The Cult of Complications Professional Amnesia The Fate of Freud3. AssesmentsIsaiah Berlin: With the CurrentBernard Henri-Levy: Leftist FabulistSartre and Camus: French Public IntellectualsHannah Arendt: Philosopher or New York Intellectual?Jonathan Franzen: The Last Viennese Intellectual?4. AppreciationsChristopher HitchensRandolph BourneChristopher LaschPaul PicconeDaniel BellC. Wright Mills5. StricturesA Sociologists on UtopiaAn English Professor on Liberal IntellectualsA Literary Critic on Academic Careers6. Myths about Utopia and ViolenceUtopia and the Myth of ViolenceViolence and the Myth of the Other7. Enlightenment in the Age of HypeA Falling Rate of Intelligence.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.552; Intellectuals; Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031076466
• Related ISBNs: 9783031076459
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