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

by Thomas Bender and Professor Thomas Bender

Book Overview

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"