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23 de mar. de 2023 · American traditions do not breed intellectuals; they breed propagandists and careerists focusing their gaze on the prominent and privileged and powerful and on whatever challenges are afflicting...
For a time, it seems, Americans mixed with public intellectuals in their everyday lives. They were our preachers and teachers, discovering their voice in times of crisis.
3 de feb. de 2012 · Two Danish intellectual historians ask for opinions on the most influential American intellectuals in the 20th century for their planned anthology. They provide a list of names and themes they have considered so far, and invite feedback from S-USIH readers.
25 de ene. de 2018 · Here are the five intellectuals who I think command the most influence regardless of their institutional attachments.
The post-World War II growth in American higher education and the emphasis on a prosperous standard of living in the 1950s prompted formerly independent intellectuals (notably such figures as Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe and Daniel Bell) to accept faculty positions at colleges and universities.
The Worlds of American Intellectual History has at its heart studies of American thinkers. Yet it follows these thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures.
In engaging and accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality – and even truth – have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
