A valuable counter to the Reagan-Bush-Bennett-Bloom backlash, these essays (by many of
the usual left suspects--Aronowitz, Said, Ehrenreich, et al.) analyze and evaluate the …

Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they
struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In …

This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the
world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought …

Intellectuals have often been criticized by Left and Right alike for being detached from the
everyday concerns of their fellow human beings. The Left usually characterize this …

Thomas Bender explores both the nineteenth-century origins and the twentieth-century
configurations of academic intellect in the United States. Periodic" crises" in our academic …

In 1982, Media, Culture & Society published an issue on the intellectuals. In his introductory
essay to that issue Philip Schlesinger concluded that “the effort to define and characterize …

It was over thirty years ago—in what now seems almost the dark beginnings and abysm of
cultural time and certainly in the prehistoric era of what we ordinarily think of as American …

The data reported upon in The American Intellectual Elite2 (hence forth AIE) were collected
in 1970 and represented intellectuals who in the late 1960's wrote in leading intellectual …

TS Eliot arrived in London by mischance in August 1914, forced here by the German
declaration of war, just as he had begun his study of German philosophy at the University of …

THE 1993 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art begins on Madison
Avenue in front of the building, where an enormous sculpture of a fire engine by the …