Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States

by Thomas Bender and Professor Thomas Bender

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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 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801857848

ISBN13:9780801857843

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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