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An Intellectual in Public /
"In this new collection of essays spanning seven years of contributions to The New Republic, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and other prominent publications, Wolfe displays the courage necessary to write honestly - yet free of ideology, cant, and piety - about the things Americans take very s...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Country
- Alien Nation 9
- Strangled by Roots 29
- Anti-American Studies 42
- Part II. God
- The Return of Evil 63
- The Hermeneutic Hole 77
- White Magic in America 88
- Faith and Diversity in American Religion 109
- Higher Learning 119
- Part III. Race
- Climbing the Mountain 139
- The Facts and the Feelings 145
- Margaret Mead Goes to Harlem 161
- Affirmative Action, Inc. 174
- Part IV. Schools
- The Jeremiah Racket 189
- Subject Matter Matters 201
- Part V. Sex
- The Mystique of Betty Friedan 213
- The Professor of Desire 223
- Up from Scientism 239
- Part VI. Consumption
- Undialectical Materialism 257
- Buying Alone 279
- The Greening of Conservatism 293
- Part VII. Left and Right
- The Snake 305
- The Revolution That Never Was 323
- Idiot Time 346
- The Fame Game 363
- The Calling of the Public Intellectual 376.