In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual—
that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment …

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 …

Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of
public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and …

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 …

Twenty-one years ago, The Nation magazine convened a congress of writers in New York
by putting out notices for the event and, as I understood the tactic, leaving open the question …

The lecture I am about to deliver, on the initiative of the Asahi news-paper, falls within the
sphere of the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution. And I would like to …

This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important
they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry …

This is a book about intellectuals. More specifically, it is a book about the way certain
American writers in the 1940s and 1950s interpreted and tried to cope with the major events …

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 …

The book provides a sophisticated alternative to existing accounts of the role of the
intellectual in modern democracy. Arguing that society suffers from a systemic deliberation …