The last intellectuals : American culture in the age of academe : with a new introduction by the author

This Provocative Book Chronicles The Disappearance Of The Public Intellectual In America. For Over Thirty Years, The Cultural Landscape Has Been Dominated By The Generation Of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, And John Kenneth Galbraith; No Younger Group Has Arisen To Succeed Them. Unlike Earlier Intellectuals Who Lived In Urban Bohemias And Wrote For The Educated Public, Today's Thinkers Have Flocked To The Universities, Where The Politics Of Tenure Loom Larger Than The Politics Of Culture. In An Incisive And Passionate Polemic, Russell Jacoby Examines How Gentrification, Suburbanization, And Academic Careerism Have Sapped The Vitality Of American Intellectual Life. Ch. 1. Missing Intellectuals? -- Ch. 2. The Decline Of Bohemia -- Ch. 3. On The Road To Suburbia: Urbanists And Beats -- Ch. 4. New York, Jewish, And Other Intellectuals -- Ch. 5. The New Left On Campus I: The Freedom To Be Academic -- Ch. 6. The New Left On Campus Ii: The Long March Through The Institutions -- Ch. 7. After The Last Intellectuals. Russell Jacoby. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 238-274) And Index. Jacoby chronicles the disappearance of the nonacademic intellectual from American cultural life. Intellectuals who first emerged 30 years ago, like Daniel Bell, William F. Buckley Jr., and John Kenneth Galbraith, still command respect. Along with others--C.Wright Mills, Lewis Mumford, and Edmund Wilson--these "last intellectuals" thought and wrote for the educated public. Yet they are now "an endangered species, without younger successors." Russell Jacoby examines how suburbanization and "gentrification" have destroyed the urban and bohemian habitats of the "last-intellectuals." He asserts that they are a missing generation, who have had little impact on a public world. ISBN 0-465-03812-3 : $18.95 Contents 8 Preface 10 Introduction to the 2000 Edition 16 Chapter 1 Missing Intellectuals? 26 Chapter 2 The Decline of Bohemia 50 Chapter 3 On the Road to Suburbia: Urbanists and Beats 77 Chapter 4 New York, Jewish, and Other InteIlectuals 95 Chapter 5 The New Left on Campus I: The Freedom to Be Academic 135 Chapter 6 The New Left on Campus II: The Long March Through the Institutions 163 Chapter 7 After the Last Intellectuals 214 Notes 261 Index 298 A 298 B 299 C 300 D 301 E 301 F 302 G 302 H 303 I 304 J 304 K 304 L 305 M 306 N 307 O 308 P 308 Q 309 R 309 S 310 T 312 U 312 V 312 W 313 Y 313 Z 313 Argues that there are no longer intellectuals working outside of the academic world, criticizes the New Left, and explains the decline of bohemia TO WALK INTO a familiar room and spontaneously identify a new object-a lamp, a picture, a clock-is a common experience.