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This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby¿s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term ¿public intellectual¿ and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Choms...

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby¿s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term ¿public intellectual¿ and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Choms...

It could be argued-and esteemed historian of ideas Russell Jacoby does so here-that the less diversity there is, the more we talk about it.But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our recognition of the importance of diversity with the fact that the world is becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? In fine prose and lucid argument, Jacoby puts our volatile...

It could be argued-and esteemed historian of ideas Russell Jacoby does so here-that the less diversity there is, the more we talk about it.But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our recognition of the importance of diversity with the fact that the world is becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? In fine prose and lucid argument, Jacoby puts our volatile...

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Excerpt from A Poet and His Songs: Being a Memoir of Russell Powell Jacoby and a Selection of His Best PoemsPulseless the heart that throbbed with joy or woe, When good or ill to others round him came, And never from his brain the thoughts shall ¿ow Which bade so fair to build their owner's fame.Gone is the genial smile which gave delight, The frank expression on that honest face, Silent the pen that urged the cause of right, Voiceless the utt...

Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in p...

Jacoby surveys the history of violence and argues that it is similarities, rather than differences, that drive people to kill one another.

Russell Jacobys Darstellung ist eine Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf ihre eigene Geschichte, auf die Geschichte der Verdrängung gesellschaftskritischer Absichten Freuds selbst bei seinen politisch bewußten Anhängern. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Verdrängungsgeschichte stehen Otto Fenichel und sein »Kreis« und der Gedankenaustausch oppositioneller Analytiker in England und den Vereinigten Staaten. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigres that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by p...

The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture ImperfectUtopianism suffers from an image problem: A recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's Mein Kampf and a Nazi concentration camp. Many observe...

The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture ImperfectUtopianism suffers from an image problem: A recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's Mein Kampf and a Nazi concentration camp. Many observe...

Excerpt from A Poet and His Songs: Being a Memoir of Russell Powell Jacoby and a Selection of His Best PoemsPulseless the heart that throbbed with joy or woe, When good or ill to others round him came, And never from his brain the thoughts shall ¿ow Which bade so fair to build their owner's fame.Gone is the genial smile which gave delight, The frank expression on that honest face, Silent the pen that urged the cause of right, Voiceless the utt...

A sharply critical look at the fate of liberal and leftist political thought and at the death of the utopian ideals that once fueled these politics.

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This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith, no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenur...