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Public intellectuals : a study of decline : with a new preface and epilogue / Richard A. Posner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Posner, Richard A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political planning--United States.
- Political planning.
- Intellectuals--United States.
- Intellectuals.
- Specialists--United States.
- Specialists.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 456 p.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. Leveling a balanced attack on liberal and conservative pundits alike, he describes the styles and genres, constraints and incentives, of the activity of public intellectuals and offers modest proposals for improving the quality of public discussion in America today. This paperback edition contains a new preface and and a new epilogue.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. General theoretical and emperical analysis
- pt. 2. Genre studies.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674042278
- 0674042271
- OCLC:
- 923117307
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