Blue Collar Intellectuals
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Author | : Daniel J. Flynn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1684516706 |
Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play? At the same time, those who pursue the life of the mind have insulated themselves from popular culture. Speaking in insider jargon and writing unread books, intellectuals have locked themselves away in a ghetto of their own creation. It wasn’t always so. Blue Collar Intellectuals vividly captures a time in the twentieth century when the everyman aspired to high culture and when intellectuals descended from the ivory tower to speak to the everyman. Author Daniel J. Flynn profiles thinkers from working-class backgrounds who played a prominent role in American life by addressing their intellectual work to a mass audience. Blue Collar Intellectuals tells the fascinating story of the unschooled hobo who migrated from skid row anonymity to White House chats with the president and prime-time TV specials. Blue Collar Intellectuals tells the fascinating story of: •The scandalous teacher-student romance that spawned a half-century labor of love in writing the history of the world. •The Ivy League Ph.D. who held neither a high school nor college degree, and fittingly launched a renaissance in reading the great books outside of formal schools. •The scholarship student who experienced the free market firsthand waiting tables and peddling socks, and who became one of capitalism’s most influential exponents. •The impoverished outcast who became the poet of the pulps, elevating millions of readers along with heretofore marginal genres. Guiding us through a world now vanished, Flynn causes us to look anew at our own digital age and its nostrums: Video gaming is just a new form of literacy, Reality shows . . . Challenge our emotional intelligence, and Who cares if Johnny can’t read? The value of books is overstated. Blue Collar Intellectuals shows us how much everyone intellectual and everyman alike has suffered from mass culture’s crowding out of higher things and the elite’s failure to engage the masses.
Author | : Irving Howe |
Publisher | : New York : Quadrangle Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Aronowitz |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231135408 |
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. This book reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.
Author | : Mike LaVelle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. E. LeMasters |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780299065546 |
"Notes"--Page 205-215. Index.
Author | : Timothy J. Lombardo |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812224833 |
Blue-Collar Conservatism examines the blue-collar, white supporters of Frank Rizzo—Philadelphia's police commissioner turned mayor—and shows how the intersection of law enforcement and urban politics created one of the least understood but most consequential political developments in recent American history.
Author | : Rajendra Pandey |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Educational sociology |
ISBN | : 9788170992455 |
Author | : Tom Bethell |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817914161 |
Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780809436026 |
Author | : C Wright 1916-1962 Mills |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015946286 |
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