Independent intellectuals in the United States: 1910 - 1945

A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. This community was unique because it existed outside the established centers of intellectual life, the universities, and the professions. Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 is a cultural hi...

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Main Author: Biel, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York u.a. New York Univ. Press 1992
Series:The American social experience series 25
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Summary:A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. This community was unique because it existed outside the established centers of intellectual life, the universities, and the professions. Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 is a cultural history of freelance critics and an exploration of their collective effort to construct a viable public intellectual life in the United States
It explores the assumptions upon which the independent intellectual community was formed, presents a picture of the personal, vocational, generational, institutional (and anti-institutional) ties that bound it together, and analyzes some of the problems and tensions that it encountered over time
Biel is concerned with critics whose hostility to boundaries and specialties compelled them toward a self-conscious generalism. Their criticism itself was diverse, ranging in subject matter from literature and the fine arts to politics, economics, sociology, education, history, urban planning, and national character
Physical Description:XVI, 294 S.
ISBN:081471188X

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