Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 /

Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 / / Steven Biel.

A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in general, the established centers of intellectual life. A generation of young intellectuals was increasingly challenging both the genteel tradition and...

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Biel, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1992]
©1992
Year of Publication:1992
Language:English
Series:The American Social Experience ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Repudiation of the University
  • 2. Making a Living
  • 3. From Expression to Influence
  • 4. The Geography of the Intellectual Life
  • 5. Women and the Critical Community
  • 6. Education and the New Basis for Community
  • 7. An Alternative Morality
  • 8. Uses of the Past
  • 9. Versions of Marx
  • Epilogue: Defending the Intellectual Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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