Last Intellectuals - (Volume 5) (Modern Thought Translation Series)

Author: Russell Jacoby
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book describes a remarkable change within the American intellectual community over a few decades of the last century: once, they educated the masses and were full of vigor; now, they have withdrawn into their own fields, closed their doors, and neglected to think for the sake of society. The author, the old-fashioned scholar Russell Jacoby, poses the question: where have the intellectuals with a strong sense of social responsibility and the courage to act as guides for the public gone?