books about: anti-intellectual

books about: anti-intellectual

books:

Anti-intellectual

The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. ...

Elvin T. Lim

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Lim provides the proof
This book offers compelling proof that presidents have dumbed down their public speech in the last two centuries. It is one of the very few political books I've read that is not at all partisan - Lim places equal blame on Clinton as he does on Bush. Lim nevertheless ...

G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern
Mark Lilla

Harvard University Press, 1993

The Italian scholar Giovanni Battista Vico is viewed as the first modern philosopher of history, a judgement largely based on his obscure 1744 masterpiece, "New Science". In this study Mark Lilla complicates this picture by presenting Vico as one of the most troubling of anti-modern thinkers. By combing Vico's neglected early writings on ...

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

Vintage, 1966

The Contemplative Life
Largeness of mind (my definition of intellect) is very rare. Hofstadter deplored the narrowing of the American mind that resulted not just from the democritization of the university (and knowledge) but from the reformulation of its mission to suit American interests. ...

The Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola (Latin America in Translation/En ...
Pedro L. San Miguel

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts ...

Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda, Third Edition

Philip M. Taylor

Manchester University Press, 2003

An Undergraduate's Perspective
As an undergraudate studying a Propaganda course at Durham University, the book was invaluable. For everyone on the course, it was the unofficial textbook. The key to its success is its masterful combination of bredth and depth. It illuminates critical issues well ...

The Long War: The Intellectual Peoples Front and Anti-Stalinism, 19301940
Judy Kutulas

Duke University Press, 1994

In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to the growing power of fascism abroad. The Long War , a social history of these intellectuals and their political institutions, tells the story of the rift that ...

The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard ...
Michael Kimmage

Harvard University Press, 2009

The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America?s political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. A spy for ...

Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (Contemporary Black History)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.

A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism (Topics in Historical Philosophy)
Lee Braver

Northwestern University Press, 2007

At a time when the analytic/continental split dominates contemporary philosophy, this ambitious work offers a careful and clear-minded way to bridge that divide. Combining conceptual rigor and clarity of prose with historical erudition, A Thing of This World shows how one of the standard issues of analytic philosophy--realism and ...

The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s

Alan M. Wald

The University of North Carolina Press, 1987

Scoundrel Time
This book is a good chronicle of the milieu of Cold War Liberals who provided a sophisticated democratic rationale for the Cold War and the political repression of the McCarthy era and who are the most responsible for the demonization of Communists in intellectual ...

Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia (Russian Studies)

Gennadi Kostyrchenko

Prometheus Books, 1995

Very detailed study
This book is definitely a must have for those interested in the period right after WWII up until Stalin's death and the actions he undertook against Jews in general. Not only going after the anti-fascist committee but also against Jewish journalists, critics, ...

Jean-Paul Sartre and The Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual ...
Jonathan Judaken

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question examines the image of ?the Jew? in Sartre?s work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French identity is defined through the abstraction and allegorization of ?the Jew? and examines the ...

The Jesus Connection: To Triumph over Anti-Semitism

Leonard C. Yaseen, Billy Graham (Introduction), ...

Crossroad Pub Co, 1985

Please Put this Book Back in Print!!!!!
The Jesus Connection: To Triumph over Anti-Semitism by Leonard C. Yaseen is written for non-Jewish audiences by a Jewish man to give understanding about Jesus, Christianity and how it relates to Judaism and vice versa. It is not a theology book. The introduction is ...

Countering Counterfeit Trade: Illicit Market Insights, Best-Practice Strategies, and Management Toolbox
Thorsten Staake, Elgar Fleisch

Springer, 2008

This book provides the know-how that is required to successfully respond to counterfeit trade. It constitutes a unique combination of in-depth insights into the counterfeit market, best-practice strategies, novel management tools, and product protection technologies. The book thereby aids the definition and implementation of market monitoring, ...

Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism
Gregory Claeys

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Citizens and Saints is a comprehensive study of the profound rupture in the language of reform and revolution which occurred with the rise of socialism. Focusing upon British Owenite socialism, Professor Claeys argues that two schools of political thinking emerged from the 'social' critique of contemporary political radicalism. One, largely ...