New York Intellect

by Thomas Bender

Book Overview

"Remarkable history -- superb in research, insight, and interpretation... The book is full of fascinations." -- New Yorker

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394550269
• ISBN13: 9780394550268
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the intellectual style of a city

In New York Intellect, Thomas Bender provides a guide to the history of intellectual life in America's cultural capital. He takes it through three phases which are based on the preoccupations of the city's intelligentsia during different periods: first, a city in which cultural institutions brought together an intellectual elite, next, a city with an explicitly literary orientation, and finally, the international capital of culture with an academic orientation. For students of cultural, intellectual, and/or urban history (which I am) this is essential reading. It's a good read for anyone interested in the history of New York City or the intellectual life of a city in general.